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by pm90 2379 days ago
Not sure what you mean. I don’t think there will be any api wars; likely providers will support tooling that can talk to their apis. This is currently the case for Terraform where different cloud officially support the tf modules. If they start supporting Pulumi, that would be when I would be comfortable switching to the tool.
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pathseeker 2379 days ago
It's a sad day when the tool you are using to call an API over HTTPS has to be supported by AWS for people to use it.
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pm90 2379 days ago
There's absolutely nothing sad about setting expectations over quality of service for infrastructure management tools. HTTP as a protocol wasn't designed to be e.g. the language for expressively communicating complex state changes when managing cloud infrastructure.

A better analogy, would be if e.g. the NFS protocol spec wasn't enough to use NFS file systems, but required vendor support to work correctly.

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