> If you're using a language like Go, you need to have either the Go compiler toolchain installed or prebuild binaries for every permutation of CPU architecture and OS that you want to run your infrastructure on. This doesn't scale well.
This is exactly the approach that Terraform takes. Both Terraform and its providers are written in Go, which is a great language for this purpose because of GoReleaser and the ease of compiling to different architectures and OSes. It scales just fine.
Did the author talk to any senior Terraform practicioners before building this?
Hi. I think the article was just showing the example that IaC tools use configuration languages instead of code. Yoke is not a terraform replacement, and does not mention terraform anywhere its documentation.
It does sit at the same level as helm & timoni. It just takes a code-based approach to managing your cluster (which in turn can manage your infra but that wasn't the larger point).
>Did the author talk to any senior Terraform practicioners before building this?
They clearly did not. Their example of something that's supposedly not possible in Terraform:
"If you really do think that Terraform is code, then go try and make multiple DNS records for each random instance ID based on a dynamic number of instances. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can do that in Terraform."
This is exactly the approach that Terraform takes. Both Terraform and its providers are written in Go, which is a great language for this purpose because of GoReleaser and the ease of compiling to different architectures and OSes. It scales just fine.
Did the author talk to any senior Terraform practicioners before building this?