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I believe that no-code is the right solution in some areas like building quickly a website for those who don't want to hire a developer. I have another use-case in the cloud management which is a product I developed https://www.brainboard.co that generates Terraform code from a drawing and I think no-code will be present in more and more domains.

Yes, I'm still experiencing that while using Brainboard. I realize that I care more about the graphics and the design and less about the code even if I spent more 12 years dealing with the code.

We reverse-engineered Terraform which means Brainboard represents faithfully every cloud resource you find in Terraform.

We are challenging the fact that source of truth will inevitably be code, we wanna move it a bit higher. When you analyze history of computer science you see that it is all about abstractions: OS as an abstraction to the HW, VM as abstraction to the limitation of both OS & HW, dockers does the same, kubernetes...and the cloud providers themselves are an abstraction of the underlaying technologies by offering: compute as a service, storage as a service, network as a service...

Interesting points. FYI: pull requests will be available during Q1/2021 and we have a kind of linter (predictable blocks, maps, lists). Another point is once you work on graphics I guess you care less about the code since you'll be fully managing graphics in the same analogy to assembly, you care about your language code and not about the assembly generated behind the scenes.

Thanks a lot for the suggestion.

The best answer is really to try it out. Let's do it and see if it works or not. By the way we are implementing complex architectures (that will be available in the marketplace) and it just works as expected.

Nice catch, it will be optimized soon. Thanks for the feedback. Love it.

I feel kind of frustration about the pricing, what price makes sense to you?

What would you suggest instead :) ?

Terraform modules will probably be available during Q1/2021. We started by releasing the market place which is the first step towards TF modules.

Terraform modules are within our roadmap, for now we have the market-place where you can design template architectures that contain your own rules and policies that you can distribute within your organization or team(s), you can make them public if you want as well.

Not yet.

The best way to verify that is to test it on Brainboard, I'm excited to know the results. We can do it together if you want, lemme know if you are interested.

Very nice question about the state drift, we are working on it in a way to have a live sync with the existing infra and either suggest a remediation or generate an alarm. We are working hard to make it work well and at the current stage (full support for GCP, Azure & AWS) we are having an amazing results.

We wanted such a tool as well and ended up creating it. Happy that you like it.

Cloudcraft is only for AWS and doesn't have all Terraform resources available, and the generation of the Terraform code is not complete.

Brainboard supports all cloud resources for AWS, Azure and GCP (Digital Ocean and Alibaba planned next) and fully supports any field available in Terraform (even map of maps).

It supports Terraform variables and have a git based versioning + a market place to design and distribute your blueprints to your team, organization or public.

I'm interested in your feedback when you test it, I think you'll like it.

Our pleasure to get your feedback when you test it.

The pull request is within our short term roadmap. To handle change control Brainboard has its own versionning system based on git accessible from the design area. It versions graphically your architectures.

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