| ▲ | baby 3 days ago |
| cdk bro |
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| ▲ | rswail 3 days ago | parent | next [-] |
| Terraform CDK is just a layer on top of terraform to avoid writing HCL/JSON. It's also deprecated by Hashicorp now. CDK on AWS itself uses CFN, which is a dog's breakfast and has no visibility on what's happening under the covers. Just write HCL (or JSON, JSONNET etc) in the first place. |
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| ▲ | baby a day ago | parent [-] | | Not sure what's a dog breakfast, but why care about what's happening under the cover? You can't know what's happening anyway in AWS. |
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| ▲ | SteveNuts 3 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| I thought that was deprecated? |
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| ▲ | sathyabhat 3 days ago | parent [-] | | cdktf is, not AWS CDK. The former allows you to use Terraform without HCL, the latter is a generator for CloudFormation. |
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| ▲ | hhh 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Am I the only person that despises CDK? Why would I use a cloud specific language instead of something like opentofu? |
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| ▲ | coredog64 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | | CDK's twin problems are that it compiles down to CloudFormation and that AWS did a terrible job at supporting languages other than TypeScript. The latter is theoretically fixable with a native FFI library that is called from each language, but the former is too leaky of an abstraction. | | |
| ▲ | baby a day ago | parent [-] | | I've only ever used it with ts and thought the experience was pretty good (especially compared to terraform) |
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| ▲ | baby a day ago | parent | prev [-] | | Considering all the downvotes I got I guess you're not the only one. I'm surprised because I really like cdk. It makes creating an AWS stack really easy, and for having dealt with terraform configurations that were trying to deal with multiple cloud platforms I'd rather have a per-platform eDSL |
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