Re:Creating my personal cloud with HashiCorp
by dragonwriter on Saturday October 30, 2021 @10:55PM
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> YAML is not a programming language
To bw fair, while CF can be written in YAML for less visual noise, its fundamentally JSON.
Also, its not a programming language, its a target-state description language.
> Give me a real programming language, with interfaces to the appropriate constructs necessary to do the job, via an SDK. In AWS, that means using CDK, not CloudFormation.
Technically,“CloudFormation via CDK”. You can't do “CDK, not CloudFormation” because CDK is just a tool for generating CloudFormation.
To bw fair, while CF can be written in YAML for less visual noise, its fundamentally JSON.
Also, its not a programming language, its a target-state description language.
> Give me a real programming language, with interfaces to the appropriate constructs necessary to do the job, via an SDK. In AWS, that means using CDK, not CloudFormation.
Technically,“CloudFormation via CDK”. You can't do “CDK, not CloudFormation” because CDK is just a tool for generating CloudFormation.