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by 0xEFF 2470 days ago
> Terraform is great but if you want to change to a different cloud provider you pretty much have to rewrite everything

While true, the process is closer to a variable name refactor than to a complete re-write. With Terraform, you have the stack described in code and the resource names translate cleanly across cloud vendors. Certainly more so than a word doc describing infrastructure setup steps.