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by kamilafsar 2379 days ago
Total IaC n00b here.

3 weeks ago I set up our AWS infrastructure with Terraform but somehow I never got it to work correctly (somehow the AWS Elastic Beanstalk health checker never turned green).

Just this week I decided to migrate to Pulumi and after a few very explanatory good error messages I got it to work. I'd say Pulumi's error messages are superior.

Another major benefit of Pulumi is that you can use typescript (and others) to script your setup. Terraform supports some scripting [1] but you have to take a few hours to learn it, and it never will be as powerful as plain ts/js/py.

[1] https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-terraform-0-12-prev...