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On AWS, Boto. On Azure, DSC (Powershell) and ARM templates.

You will need to maintain separate TF codebases for each one anyway, but with the native solutions you get easy access to all features of the platform and don't have to spend most of your time jumping through stupid hoops to try and pretend that one tool can do everything.

No-one would write code worrying if it was valid in both Java and C# but that is the same level as what TF claims to do. It's complete shit, ditch it and you will be 10x happier, I guarantee it.



Sounds to me like using a single tool instead of a bunch of separate ones with different functionality is a win to me, but we are each entitled to our opinions.

Boto doesn’t seem comparable to terraform at all, unless you enjoy building state management yourself.

Terraform has been better than anything else I’ve tried so far.




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