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jsii
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The Stainless SDK Generator
What about jsii? The technology behind AWS sdks: https://aws.github.io/jsii/
Is Stainless similar, different?
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AWS Makes Cloud Formation Stack Creation Up to 40% Faster
The libraries for other supported languages of CDK are built as wrappers for underlying JS or maybe TS code via https://github.com/aws/jsii
So all the core CDK code is written first in JS/TS and then stubs for the other languages are added
Unfortunately this is often done without consideration for how the other supported langs actually work, and artefacts of e.g. JS lack of support for kwargs leak through
This is why e.g. the typing in CDK Python is completely broken - pretty much uniformly the concrete types like "Resource" don't implement their corresponding interface like "IResource" (to a type checker)
(There are many other typing niggles like this but that's the most egregious and pervasive one)
At the end of the day, having to explicitly cast concrete types as their interface to satisfy type checker is a minor annoyance, albeit a stupid one that could have been avoided with more care in the core library.
I could live with that, but I encountered so many bugs and issues trying to use CDK on current project that it's now much clearer to me why every company I worked at previously was using Terraform.
Pretty sure some of those issues are ultimately CloudFormation ones. The cumbersome CF > CDK JS > CDK Python stack is great for obfuscating errors and making debugging hard or impossible though.
Pulumi do something similar, albeit with Go as the core language and Terraform underneath. From what I've seen with a little use they have a much more successful result though, Pulumi Python was not a complete mess, and deploys faster and more reliable with better error feedback. I guess they just took more care to get it right.
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Infrastructure Manager: Provision Google Cloud Resources with Terraform
Every version of the CDK uses an interop layer and runs on top of the Typescript version
https://github.com/aws/jsii
And as far as TF supports services before CFT. Guess which is easier for an AWS employee to do - getting the CF service team to support a new service or just contribute to Terraform’s open source project?
I know of at least one service where the service team introduced the needed APIs and then an employee of AWS wrote the TF provider and contributed to the project before AWS’s own internal team added it to CFT.
Source: former AWS ProServe employee
- JSii allows code in any language to naturally interact with JavaScript classes
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Cloud, why so difficult? 🤷♀️
To "meet developers where they are" is a beautiful tenet of AWS, and of the CDK, and inspired us to create awesome technology such as JSII and constructs.
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Automating AWS API gateways v1 REST
Yeah both CDKTF and Pulumi piggyback on JSII, a class translator that supports the languages you've mentioned, which was used as a building base for CDK.
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New open-source programming language for DevOps engineers by the creator of the CDK
The reason we chose to start with compilation to JavaScript and not some other popular cloud language is because JavaScript is currently one of the most used ones, and in addition, we are using JSII to write our SDK in Typescript and then export it for consumption in other languages, such as Go, Python, Java and others.
- Write SDK “base” in Rust, wrap in other languages?
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CDKTF Frequently Asked Questions
The CDKTF CLI is implemented in TypeScript. Providers and resources are implemented in TypeScript as well. jsii is used to compile the providers and resources to the supported languages.
- 10 things about AWS CDK
Pulumi
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How To Implement AWS SSB Controls in Terraform - Part 4
If you are following this blog series, you should already know the benefits of using Terraform to define and deploy your AWS resources and configuration. Other IaC solutions such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, and Pulumi work the same way but differs in the programming or configuration language.
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The 2024 Web Hosting Report
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is an important part of any true hosting operation in the public cloud. Each of these platforms has their own IaC solution, e.g. AWS CloudFormation. But they also support popular open-source IaC tools like Pulumi or Terraform. A category of tools that also needs to be discussed is API gateways and other app-specific load balancers. There are applications for internal consumption, which can be called microservices if you have a lot of them. And often microservices use advanced networking options such as a service mesh instead of just the native private network offered by a VPC.
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systemd by example (2021)
funny, to me systemd == no docker, no containers, just a VM.
it's my goto way to keep my programming running and have it be restarted if the vm reboots. I use VMs like "pods". I deploy code directly to the VM and run it there along with other programs. I scale up an scale down with: https://www.pulumi.com/
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A list of SaaS, PaaS and IaaS offerings that have free tiers of interest to devops and infradev
Pulumi — Modern infrastructure as a code platform that allows you to use familiar programming languages and tools to build, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure.
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Playing devil's advocate with Terraform
A move like this may have an impact in other open source projects. Take Pulumi, for instance, people might avoid choosing it now that the Linux Foundation have its own IaC tool, and for newer, smaller projects it will probably be impossible to compete with a project under the Linux name.
- Pulumi – open-source Infrastructure as Code in any language
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Best way to deploy K8s to single VPS for dev environment
Another alternative to writing an operator would be to rely on kustomize or https://www.pulumi.com/.
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⚡⚡ Level Up Your Cloud Experience with These 7 Open Source Projects 🌩️
Pulumi
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Show HN: Togomak – declarative pipeline orchestrator based on HCL and Terraform
Would it make sense to say Dagger is to Pulumi [1], as Terraform is to Togomak?
[1]: https://www.pulumi.com/
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The Complete Microservices Guide
Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Define your infrastructure using code (IaC) to automate the provisioning of resources such as virtual machines, load balancers, and databases. Tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and AWS CloudFormation can help.
What are some alternatives?
projen - Rapidly build modern applications with advanced configuration management
terraform-cdk - Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform
awesome-projen - P6M7G8's Awesome Projen
cdk8s - Define Kubernetes native apps and abstractions using object-oriented programming
middy - 🛵 The stylish Node.js middleware engine for AWS Lambda 🛵
terragrunt - Terragrunt is a thin wrapper for Terraform that provides extra tools for working with multiple Terraform modules.
aws-cdk - The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code
crossplane - The Cloud Native Control Plane
aws-sdk-js-v3 - Modularized AWS SDK for JavaScript.
bicep - Bicep is a declarative language for describing and deploying Azure resources
cdk8s - Define Kubernetes native apps and abstractions using object-oriented programming [Moved to: https://github.com/cdk8s-team/cdk8s]
Ansible - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.