[topochico3]

I don’t understand the appeal of CDK, it’s the most difficult to understand overly complex part of IaaC I have ever come across.

I want simple yaml/hcl that is easy to understand and write. I don’t need to feel smart writing TF, I need it to be easy to understand to reduce MTTR when things go wrong.

[ryan_lane]

Try to TF manage a large github organization with just terraform and get back to me. I'm having to wrap it with python code already, and my next step is the CDK.

The biggest issue is that parts of the TF for github requires references, and it fetches each of those references individually (which which quickly make you hit your ratelimit, while also taking 10+ minutes for just a plan). Wrapping this in python, and doing more efficient fetches ahead of time, and feeding the references in yourself can turn a 10+ minute plan into a 20 second plan for 1000+ repos.

[kazen44]

the issue with yaml is that is breaks down under real life complexities in larger/complexer environments.