Re:Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
by kkapelon on Friday December 15, 2023 @10:31AM
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Pulumi -> Same end result as Terraform but you use Code (python, go, typescript) to describe resources instead of hcl
Crossplane -> Same end result as Terraform but you use K8s resources in YAML to describe your infra.
I hope that helps. But I agree that the crossplane/upbound marketing is super confusing.
Re:Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
by ak217 on Friday December 15, 2023 @12:43PM
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Thanks for noting these. From my experience, neither can replace terraform (though Pulumi might be on the right track). Neither come anywhere close to the Terraform AWS provider, and tightly coupling my IaC to Kubernetes is a non-starter for me (and I'm sure for many others as well).
Re:Mitchell reflects as he departs HashiCorp
by nijave on Friday December 15, 2023 @06:58PM
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Imo main benefit is you can use 1 tool/deploy pipeline for app and infrastructure.
Yes, technically you can do that with Terraform but in my experience it doesn't work great for code deploys (which tend to have procedural steps)
I tried to understand what is it, how it works, what is it good for, but ... never managed to. It still has the same "build control planes without needing to write code" on its website. okay, it says "orchestrate applications and infrastructure". that's at least makes sense when the context is Terraform and Pulumi.
okay, in the quickstart the whole thing seems like code. but okay.
ah, so you can use k8s CRDs to define cloud stuff (like S3 buckets and GCP GCS buckets and whatnot), not bad, but super verbose.