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by twunde
2253 days ago
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Some of this is truly on terraform. The for construct (and looping in general) was only added in TF 12, released in May 2019. Older codebases didn't have a real way to support looping so there's more copy paste there. TF supports ternary conditionals, but not true if statements, which makes adding more complicated if logic difficult. The reality is that all programming languages have significant copy paste codebases using them, but there are features which help reduce the amount of it. Terraform is missing some of those features, and many of the features it does have were introduced in tf 12, which is less than a year old. |
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It’s interesting that some people bring up sbt as an example of how to use a „programming language” for configuration. The reason why sbt became dominant was the weight of Lightbend (Typesafe). There was no way to get away from it. Frankly, sbt can be awful mashup of copy / paste too. sbt is so much magic, I would not be surprised to discover that majority the folks who use sbt, have no actual clue why stuff works the way it works.
I haven’t tried Pulumi yet, I will try when I get the chance. I am eagerly waiting for an opportunity to use it. Hopefully it will surprise me in a positive way. Surely, it can deliver on what it promises. I have very fond memories of Chef and cookbooks in Ruby, it can be done.
Edit: personally, Chef solo (with right tooling to eliminate the server), was the best experience so far. If Pulumi can improve on that (no agent), I’m looking forward to take it for a test drive.