Terraform is not the golden hammer

Re:Terraform is not the golden hammer by danielovichdk on Sunday September 19, 2021 @10:33AM (#28584635)

I run only on Azure. Nearly all my IAC is written in PowerShell uilizing the Azure Cli.

Terraform and yaml as well are so verbose and you have no clue whats going on from the local side of things.

How do debug your terraform markup locally. My guess is you can't.

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Re:Terraform is not the golden hammer by awslattery on Sunday September 19, 2021 @10:54AM (#28584805)

The console command [1], mixed with local variables, is quite handy for debugging locally.

1. https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/commands/console.html

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Re:Terraform is not the golden hammer by x86_64Ubuntu on Sunday September 19, 2021 @11:35AM (#28585133)

Seems as if people have very strong feelings about Terraform, but little actual experience using it.

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Re:Terraform is not the golden hammer by httgp on Sunday September 19, 2021 @08:43PM (#28589316)

Bingo. While I see some valid complaints about Terraform in the comments, most of them seem to come from a place of not fully understanding how it works or the features it offers.

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Re:Terraform is not the golden hammer by toyg on Sunday September 19, 2021 @12:18PM (#28585521)

It's not the easiest tool to grok, writing configuration files can be very verbose, and its opinions about a number of things can be very off-putting. I tried to "get into" TF many times and never actually fell in love. I like the idea, I like the cross-cloud approach, I just don't particularly like what the experience ends up being. This shit should be easier.

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