terramate VS Pulumi

initContainers: - args: - >- curl -L https://github.com/terramate-io/terramate/releases/download/v${TERRAMATE_VERSION}/terramate_${TERRAMATE_VERSION}_linux_x86_64.tar.gz | tar xz command: - sh - -c env: - name: TERRAMATE_VERSION value: 0.4.5 image: curlimages/curl name: get-terramate volumeMounts: - mountPath: /home/curl_user/ name: terramate workingDir: /home/curl_user/ extraVolumes: - name: terramate emptyDir: {} extraVolumeMounts: - name: terramate mountPath: /usr/local/bin/terramate subPath: terramate readOnly: true

‍Terramate is an open-source IaC orchestration tool for Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi, Cloudformation, and others, that streamlines and scales your IaC workflows.

Nice, this looks close to https://terramate.io/ stacks

You might want to take a look at Terramate. Compared to other tooling such as Terragrunt we're not a wrapper that will lock you in yet another syntax. Terramate is a code generator and orchestrator that helps you to generate native Terraform that can be executed in whatever environment of your choice.

Another option for Terragrunt could be Terramate. It comes with Code Generation that helps you to automatically generate files such as Terraform, Provider and Backend configurations in various stacks (directories). The upside is that it always generates native Terraform code.

This can be done with a tool such as Terramate or Terragrunt (afaik Terragrunt doesn't come with change detection).

I'd love to add Terramate to the list of alternatives to Terraform Cloud!

That sounds like something Terramate helps with. I've been using it exactly for that purpose (code generation) and it made everything so much easier!

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.

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.

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/

Pulumi — Modern infrastructure as a code platform that allows you to use familiar programming languages and tools to build, deploy, and manage cloud infrastructure.

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.

Another alternative to writing an operator would be to rely on kustomize or https://www.pulumi.com/.

Pulumi

Would it make sense to say Dagger is to Pulumi [1], as Terraform is to Togomak?

[1]: https://www.pulumi.com/

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.