Re:Show HN: Terrabook – Replit for Infrastructure
by blown_gasket on Friday July 22, 2022 @05:38PM
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Feedback from someone that started with traditional datacenter infrastructure and is now dealing with cloud-infra automation.
I don't see Terraform as the best IaC framework for lowering the barrier to put infrastructure into developers hands (personally I think that product developers should develop and not worry about infrastructure, but that's a different conversation).
The difference in state management is pretty much the biggest difference between Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform - the first two you don't have to worry about it. With Terraform you do. You can't just rewrite code and give resources new names, if you do during a plan it will tell you that it wants to delete the old named resources and deploy the resources with new names.
I don't see Terraform as the best IaC framework for lowering the barrier to put infrastructure into developers hands (personally I think that product developers should develop and not worry about infrastructure, but that's a different conversation).
The difference in state management is pretty much the biggest difference between Ansible, Puppet, and Terraform - the first two you don't have to worry about it. With Terraform you do. You can't just rewrite code and give resources new names, if you do during a plan it will tell you that it wants to delete the old named resources and deploy the resources with new names.