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A comment on Terraform Scripting Concepts. Parent comment

Re:Terraform Scripting Concepts by jen20 on Monday January 03, 2022 @08:44AM (#29780695)
The official name for .tf files is a “configuration”, per the code base.
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Re:Terraform Scripting Concepts by rch on Monday January 03, 2022 @02:35PM (#29785352)
Which makes sense in the context of managing "configuration as code".

Once configuration is code, i.e. Turing complete, something has gone awry.

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Re:Terraform Scripting Concepts by jen20 on Monday January 03, 2022 @03:37PM (#29786470)
Indeed - infrastructure being defined with a declarative model makes perfect sense. One need not use a DSL to achieve that though.
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