Terraform

“Terraform has worked decently well especially since there's a few random settings here and there that aren't exposed anywhere in the UI”

“To people who say just use Terraform: I do, a lot. But it still bothers me enough to try building something different.”

“What's even the point of caching a state if the state can be changed behind Terraform's back.”

“Adding new servers to the cluster is a single number change to the terraform file.”

“I establish hard loosely coupled separations here and it’s been fine as terraform wrapper around helm.”

“the best supported and most mature pattern on most big cloud providers is precisely”

“if there's one thing LLMs are excellent at, it's writing Terraform and Kubernetes deployments”

“Terraform's declarative approach provided more consistency and predictability in how infrastructure was defined and provisioned.”

“Much better than messing with cloud consoles, and then your infrastructure self-documents.”

“makes an interesting tradeoff to try and have the best of both worlds but ultimately still falls on the same issue”

“It's like 12 lines of terraform to fully automate this, inside your existing IaC infrastructure.”

“the verbs literally ARE the operations, so reading the code IS reading the intent”

“ive seen teams spend their first month writing helm charts and terraform before they even have a single paying user”

“The default behavior of Terraform and co is already to add a random hash suffix to the end of the bucket name to prevent such errors.”

“automate with Terraform and run reproducible runtimes like k3s or devcontainers so environments stay consistent”

“the vast majority of them that isn't bash scripts is better and more maintainable than their equivalents in pure bash would be”

“Why the hell is this anywhere near AWS, or Terraform, or any other PaaS nonsense?”

“you have great IDE support with refactor, find usages, resource documentation and everything else you might expect”

“their constrained nature makes it easier to reign in the zealous junior developer who just discovered OOP”

“The way you have to bend over backwards in Terraform just to instantiate a thing multiple times based on some data really annoys me”

“The fact that you can use to to configure your Cisco products as well as AWS is honestly great for us.”

“I think with the OpenTofu / Terraform support you're very close to enabling patterns that platform teams typically look for.”

“Writing some initial resources and asking it to "make it normal," is helpful. That does save time.”

“it was faster for an SA when i was at AWS to create a Terraform module and have it merged into Terraform”

“The most confusing part of terraform for me is that terraform's view of the infrastructure is a singleton config file that is often stored in that very infrastructure”

“I have recently started using terraform/tofu and ansible to automate nearly all of the devops operations.”

“seeing what it built for those files while linking up with my custom domain on cloudflare was pretty neat”

“We had something like 1,800 open issues and someone on Twitter decided to farm engagement and dunk on it”

“The Terraform Registry is easy for the agent to comprehend, HCL has been stable for years now.”

“I fuckin hate the count pattern for conditional present/not present that leads to an array of size == 1.”

“The real issues with Terraform come when you start to want to orchestrate different workspaces triggering each other”

“I really do think I'm 10x faster with Terraform, because I don't need to read all the documentation”

“I then IaC'd the whole thing with Terraform, something I only dreamed about doing before AI!”

“This is not necessarily a problem except that they had to live in the original HCL v1 landscape which makes them awkward syntactically.”

“All these started with pure declarative DSL then incrementally created a nightmarish imperative monstrosity.”

“From the perspective of someone who provides devops support to multiple teams, terraform is more "predictable".”

“stop trying to program in a configuration language (Terraform HCL with surprises like non-short-circuited AND evaluation)”

“It’s declarative, type safe and just expressive enough to create basic conditionals, loops and reusable modules.”

“TF has a limitation on state size. And when you hit that limit, you have to either slow down a ton or do a (big) refactoring.”

“Terraform variable management is our larger problem (now/nearterm) when we have to deploy numerous cells of infra”