[mancini0]

Lets use Bazel, and Bazel's rules_k8s to build\containerize\test\deploy only the microservices of my monorepo that changed.

Lets use Istio's "istioctl manifest apply" to deploy a service mesh to my cluster that allows me to pull auth logic / service discovery / load balancing / tracing out of my code and let Istio handle this.

Lets configure my app's infrastructure (Kafka (Strimzi), Yugabyte/Cockroach, etc) as yaml files. Being able to describe my kafka config (foo topic has 3 partitions, etc) in yaml is priceless.

Lets move my entire application and its infrastructure to another cloud provider by running a single bazel command.

k8s is the common denominator that makes all this possible.

[MuffinFlavored]

> k8s is the common denominator that makes all this possible.

can't... terraform make all of that possible?

[p_l]

Terraform explicitly doesn't want to deal with deployment of stuff that is inside VMs etc. and tries to tell you to use managed services or cloud-config yamls as the solution.

You can write your own providers, you can use the provisioned support, but TF doesn't like that and it shows.