Re:Terraform 1.0
by jen20 on Tuesday June 08, 2021 @09:40PM
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> very vocal stodgy old timers that were really resistant to any improvements from the very earliest days
As one of the three maintainers of Terraform (for the core and all providers) in that time frame, your characterisation is not particularly accurate - likely hence the downvotes.
Many of the “suggestions” in that time frame were “we should do something and ‘X’ is something so we should do ‘X’” - which is to a large extent how TF came into being.
From the earliest days, breaking changes were avoided - policy which was not retained through later versions.
While you may have heard some “core developers” claim that reuse was unnecessary (I can’t claim omnipresence), the HashiCorp official training that I taught during that time period _used modules extensively_ for this.
As one of the three maintainers of Terraform (for the core and all providers) in that time frame, your characterisation is not particularly accurate - likely hence the downvotes.
Many of the “suggestions” in that time frame were “we should do something and ‘X’ is something so we should do ‘X’” - which is to a large extent how TF came into being.
From the earliest days, breaking changes were avoided - policy which was not retained through later versions.
While you may have heard some “core developers” claim that reuse was unnecessary (I can’t claim omnipresence), the HashiCorp official training that I taught during that time period _used modules extensively_ for this.