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by Aeolun 2170 days ago
I have a hard time believing anyone would consider ejecting to CloudFormation a selling point.
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Could be nice to version control them. Some CLI stuff looks cool on a blog, but do you want to remember what commands you typed, and in what order, to bring up what production looked like two weeks ago manually?
It's a cautious way to start working with a new tool. It's AWS, but there will still be bugs, especially for people with large or unusual deployments. You could use the tool to generate CloudFormation configs and then put them through a PR process. After six months of this with no bogus configs generated by the tool, you might decide you're on a well-paved road and make it part of your CI/CD pipeline.