[jiggawatts]

I had a look at the example glu deployment pipeline and I’m decidedly unimpressed.

Admittedly most of my criticism is related to the choice of Go as an implementation language: more than 80% of the code volume is error handling boilerplate!

Before the lovers of Go start making the usual arguments consider that in a high-level pipeline script every step is expected to fail in novel and interesting ways! This isn’t “normal code” where fallible external I/O interactions are few and far between, so error handling overhead is amortised over many lines of logic! Instead the code becomes all error handling with logic… in there… somewhere. Good luck even spotting it.

Second, I don’t see the benefit of glu (specifically) over established IaC systems such as Pulumi — which is polyglot and allows the use of languages that aren’t mostly repetitive error handling ceremony.

This seems like an internally developed tool that suits the purposes of a single org “thrown over the fence” in the hope that the open source community will contribute to their private tool.

[cdaringe]

ocamlci is an OCaml Platform offered canned recipe, a la glu, and they really cut that boilerplate down. I almost never use, but i had the same vibes as you did and it made me think of an impl i thought glu may have something to learng from.

https://github.com/ocurrent/ocaml-ci?tab=readme-ov-file