XML is better than YAML

Re:XML is better than YAML by ActorNightly on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @10:50PM (#37592690)

To be fair, Amazon is pushing cdk with typescript as the best way to define infrastructure.

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Re:XML is better than YAML by koolba on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @11:03PM (#37592771)

Last I checked, CDK was just a typescript veneer atop the steaming pile that is known as CloudFormation.

Not even tagged unions can polish that turd.

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Re:XML is better than YAML by Spivak on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @11:33PM (#37592915)

And it always will be, cdktf is the same but on Terraform objects. At some point you have to reach the end and spit out the final list of stuff you want.

If you want full imperative just use the AWS sdk or Ansible but I think people have realized how not maintainable that pattern is.

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Re:XML is better than YAML by emodendroket on Thursday September 21, 2023 @12:41AM (#37593291)

Sure, like C is just a veneer on top of machine language.

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Re:XML is better than YAML by baq on Thursday September 21, 2023 @03:00AM (#37594099)

Every time I need to do something in CDK I am reminded of https://xkcd.com/2347/ except the whole thing is my config and the tiny bit is the thing I want to understand how to change.

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Re:XML is better than YAML by ActorNightly on Friday September 22, 2023 @09:32PM (#37619856)

CFN is also a bunch of abstraction over api calls. You can set up infrastructure using boto3 if you want, for free.

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