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		dkdk8283 on April 15, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Terraform 0.15 General Availability I’ve preferred cloud formation for many years. the amount of time I spend debugging problems related to TF is infuriating. at least with aws.

halfmatthalfcat on April 15, 2021 | [–]

The amount of tooling that has sprung out around managing large CloudFormation deployments is exactly the reason TF exists. CloudFormation is an untenable mess.

dkdk8283 on April 16, 2021 | | [–]

No, it’s just that it’s not fun to learn.

mbushey on April 15, 2021 | [–]

Terraform makes me happy, I use it daily on AWS and GCP. I can't stand Cloud Formation.

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