[zubnix]

So much this. If you hate cloudformation, have a look at CDK, which allows you to programmatically define a stack in a language of your choice, instead of trying to use unreadable huge yaml to write code.

I really wish terraform will one day reach the same features and maturity as cloudformation.

[rantwasp]

to be fair to Terraform, this is hard. It's hard when you are dealing with multiple cloud providers since you have to keep state somewhere. Network failures or underlying cloud failures are gonna impair TF in the head every time.

If there is one thing TF needs to learn to do is handle failure. Right now it has that rosy yolo approach leaving you to pick up the pieces when it fails.