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by nothrabannosir
586 days ago
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Because you can use that to interface with existing tooling. Terraform has a huge and established ecosystem and it’s an uphill battle to compete with it. It’s risky to bet your infra on a tech that tries to drink the ocean and supplant the entire thing. Meanwhile if you compile down to TF you get to use a different language without having to pay the cost of moving out of the tf ecosystem. And given that the language itself is by far the worst thing about terraform that’s a big win. It turns out terraform is actually quite acceptable when you slap a decent language on top of it. Passable, even :) |
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We've been migrating off of Terraform at BigCo recently and it has been a tremendous success. The migration has saved countless hours. Before, I was jaded and routinely in the office until 8 or 9 or so manually running terraform deploys for our engineering teams in India. Now, thanks to Pulumi, I'm able to leave the office at 7:30-8 -- and I can tell you single handed that this has saved my relationship with my daughter and maybe even my marriage. I'm running the fastest for loops thanks to Pulumi. We actually compile our Python down to c and use the Pulumi C SDK for insane speed benefits when we loop over our datacenter arrays. Turns out, not having bounds checks shaves off valuable time that I would otherwise be spending with my daughter. Routinely I'd be waking up screaming at 4 in the morning due to Terraform (or, what we would refer to as Tearaform because all of the infra engineers were constantly in tears). Now, I can sleep soundly until 5:30.