What better tools do you have in mind? Most of the people I know in the space have been moving _to_ Terraform, although CDK has improved enough over CF to be appealing for people who are all in on Amazon.
"better" is subjective. But Pulumi fixes a lot of the pain points of terraform for me.
Re:Terraform 1.0
by staticassertion on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:47PM
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Pulumi has been such a breath of fresh air. It is the only tool that actually feels like it encompasses "infrastructure as code".
Terraform CDK is a thing too, if you want to go beyond AWS.
for_each is an anti-pattern for reliable Terraform IMO. Not sure it was worth the wait and there isn't much out there that can compare with the simplicity of Terraform.
Re:Terraform 1.0
by devonbleak on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @01:45PM
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WAY more reliable than count which would do screwy things like rename a bunch of stuff and delete the last item if you removed an item from the middle of a list.
Complex architectures and reusable module encapsulation require a bit more complexity than HCL1 was capable of describing IMO (and apparently the O of most of the Internet). That doesn't necessarily make it less reliable.
Could I describe my infrastructure "reliably" just using raw resources with no loops? Sure but that sounds like a nightmare to both build and maintain.
so I'd imagine some people waited long enough that they moved on to better tools.