Iac

When it comes to IaC (infrastructure as code), most people might have heard of HashiCorp’s Terraform (it uses HCL as DSL. Interestingly enough, Terraform also has its own CDK to translate programming languages into HCL), Pulumi or AWS CDK. The latter two support programming languages as DSL. Mostly there are two camps: People who swear by HCL and think you shouldn’t use programming languages for IaC People who don’t see why you need to pick up a new language in order to use IaC, so they prefer using a programming language they already are familiar with instead Both camps are not wrong, they are both valid. However, I want to share my take on why you should use HCL for IaC. ...