[holoway]

All marketing is marketing that will land on flat ears. In the end, you'll have to try System Initiative, see if it is a fit for your use case today, and if it isn't, if it's worth paying attention to tomorrow. I wouldn't (and you shouldn't either) make a technology decision based on what anyone says on their website or blog. :)

Today the obvious drawbacks:

* Terraform has tons of coverage in their provider ecosystem, and we're not close to that yet.

* We have some enterprise features still to add.

* There is some work to be done around huge infrastructures, both in how to provide easy ways to visualize them and how we scale the underlying graphs.

https://docs.systeminit.com/roadmap/

We have plans for all these things, but it's early days. My advice (not just for SI) - you should always build representative prototypes if you want to understand what a technology might do for you. Your circumstances matter, and your problems are likely unique.

[lijok]

Prototypes are expensive and as such difficult to justify if the technology doesn't look promising. I'm sure you're aware there's a new self-proclaimed miracle tool appearing in this ecosystem every day. My point is that there is a severe lack of information to make an educated decision here.

I think it's fair to say most people will be interested in potentially replacing Terraform with this. Do you have a comparison against Terraform? Is there a guide on how to import resources into SI?

[holoway]

Rest assured, we'll have more competitive content over time. :)

[otterley]

Having a pros/cons page vis-a-vis alternatives that was honest and thorough is something Hashicorp always did well, to their credit. You should, too. It earns trust.

[mtndew4brkfst]

One of my past employers specifically declined to write up this while trying to sell into a crowded space like SI aims to. In my case I really got the stinkeye for asking about it (how we compare, and do we document that publicly anywhere) during my first few weeks. It definitely left a sour taste for me.

[holoway]

Thanks for the feedback! I appreciate it.