[nuker]

> Give me Terraform (as much as I hate it) any day.

Just use CloudFormation. Easy to write, declarative, vars (Parameters and Output exports). Trick is not to pile everything in one Stack. Use several.

[notyourwork]

CDK is much better to express this. Why cfn?

[nuker]

Less lines, easier to read, declarative (cdk is interactive, less predictable).

And it generates shitty CFN, we can do better ourselves :)

[notyourwork]

How is cdk interactive? I use cdk and have it auto build and deploy.

[nuker]

It is "imperative", not interactive, sorry. From Wiki:

"There are generally two approaches to IaC: declarative (functional) vs. imperative (procedural). The difference between the declarative and the imperative approach is essentially 'what' versus 'how'."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure_as_code#Types_o...