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Re:Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation by FridgeSeal on Wednesday October 06, 2021 @10:46PM (#28781236)
I’ve seen teammates write enough impenetrable JS/Python/ etc code that I’m pretty comfortable saying I want none of that near the machinery that provisions potentially expensive amounts of infrastructure.

I like that HCL is declarative and deliberately restricted in what’s possible, it means I never have to think about some dev writing “clever” code or over abstracting things, or writing bugs that spin up to many machines.

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Re:Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation by midnightblue on Saturday October 09, 2021 @04:56AM (#28808177)
HCL being so restricted is the reason why many teams feel the need to implement a layer on top of it.

Once you’re working with HCL templated via Gomplate or what have you, and a pipeline which processes the code base and then spits out the resultant HCL as an artifact to be used by a subsequent step, you’ll pine for the impenetrable JS or Python code. At least that is code which has a reasonable development workflow associated with it, not a monstrosity held together with duct tape and vulgar hacks.

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