terraform-cdk VS terraform-exec

At first I tested it to deploy an OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes Service (MKS) with a Node Pool. And step by step, it worked. I even created a Pull Request (PR) in the terraform-cdk repository to add it as an example ☺️.

I'll be trying more sample app deployments with CDK and maybe even explore CDK for Terraform.

You can use CDK with other providers using https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk

In my experience, CDK is far better than Pulumi, especially if you're mostly going to be using AWS.

I, personally, prefer Crossplane Composite Functions on top of CDK8S, but had dropped CDKTF due to bloat. You can actually manage Kubernetes updates/upgrade lifecycle with Crossplane, as well.

I was going to recommend Pulumi, but looks like CDK for Terraform is still being kept up to date.

Avoid Pulumi, get directly to source and use https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk

You still have to call the terraform CLI, and as others suggested, terraform-exec is good (we use it with Lingon).

Debugging has actually been ok because all Lingon does is dump the HCL/YAML. For Kubernetes we shell out to kubectl and for Terraform we wrote a simple wrapper around terraform-exec that is not part of the core library. So when things go wrong, you're back to your basics.

I'm new to Go, and since I work pretty heavily with Terraform, I thought making some terraform automation with Go would be a great little side project/lab for learning. With that said, I'm wondering if anyone has had any luck using the terraform-exec library from hashicorp (https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-exec). I'm finding the documentation incredibly hard to follow when trying to replicate some simple CLI commands like terraform plan and extract anything meaningful from it.

We will utilize this nice wrapper hashicorp/terraform-exec to apply the synthesized Terraform module from Go.

[hashicorp/terraform-exec sounds like what you're looking for if writing Go is okay](http://"GitHub - hashicorp/terraform-exec: Terraform CLI commands via Go." https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-exec)

I am using a vendor from GitHub if I have to be specific this repo.

Hashicorp has their own module for doing this you might find useful: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-exec