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Re:Terraform Scripting Concepts by 0x445442 on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:41AM (#29780666)
No you’re not the only one. The problem with Terraform “Scripting” is in a lot of cases it takes a loooong time to find out your “runtime” errors. These are typically fat fingered strings. I think something like AWS CDK, where you find these errors at compile, time is a better approach.
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Re:Terraform Scripting Concepts by w1nt3rmut3 on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:58AM (#29780795)
This already exists. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/
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Re:Terraform Scripting Concepts by 0x445442 on Friday January 07, 2022 @10:13AM (#29840018)
I wasn't aware of this and I'm glad to see they're doing it. But my guess is this is a relatively recent offering in response to the AWS version and the issues I was mentioning.
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Re:Terraform Scripting Concepts by seniorThrowaway on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:13PM (#29784959)
terraform really needs to be run in CI/CD pipe. Even without the backend initialized you can run terraform validate which will find things like undeclared variables and messed up count and foreach references.
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Re:Terraform Scripting Concepts by isbvhodnvemrwvn on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:45PM (#29786602)
But it won't find resource IDs being passed instead of ARNs, and a whole lot of other things.
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