[cyberpunk]

I'm pretty happy to see this. I just inherited a bunch of projects that all have entire tf stacks inside them, and I'm itching to just replace it all with some actual code.

Terraform was great, once, but over time as general cloud complexity got above a handful of some ec2 machines and some networking rules, it becomes a real burden to manage. Now all our devs are struggling to manage kenesis or ecs/fargate stuff with terraform. HCL is so close yet so far from an actual language that it's infuriating to use as a developer.

I think I'll bite the bullet and go all in on this, since the rest of our codebase is all ts anyway. Pulumi would be the other option, but at this point we're so sucked in to aws anyway, the only reason to use that over this (not locked to aws) is moot for us.

[politician]

This will blow your mind: you can write a TF provider in real code that calls into the CDK that can be driven by TF scripts. You would do this to have a nice configuration language over the top of an opinionated set of resources.

[simlevesque]

I did it, absolutely no regrets, except using CDK Pipelines.