Creating my personal cloud with HashiCorp

• aws-cdk

  263 11,158 9.9 TypeScript

  The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code

  

I'm not the biggest fan of Terraform either but it would be naive to deny that Terraform doesn't still offer a lot of advantages over CloudFormation even if you're not writing cloud agnostic code (even though I do actually agree with your point that Terraform doesn't make your infra cloud agnostic).

Terraform offers far more constructs than CloudFormation and there is still a lot to be said for using the same language from describing your AWS infra as GCP, Github, any on prem infra, etc (even if the resources differ between providers requiring bespoke code for each). It's a bit like those who advocate node.js because it means the same developers can right frontend and backend code and in the same language.

If you like the tooling around CloudFormation in AWS then you're better off with serverless (`sls`) or even Amazon's own CDK (https://aws.amazon.com/cdk/) over YAML-based CloudFormation stacks in my opinion.

That's not to say I don't think Terraform doesn't have its warts: properties are non-guessable, IDE integration is pretty mediocre, and it's overly verbose in calling modules (so bad that sometimes the calling code has just as many lines as the module itself!) but I do still think it is the least worst tool available at the moment. And one can always use a 3rd party tools like Terragrunt if you want to fix some of the shortcomings of Terraform while still taking advantage of it's benefits (though personally I'm on the fence about whether the industry really needs yet another transpiler that compiles to code that needs to be transpiled....it's starting to feel like it's just abstractions all the way down....)

• levant

  3 822 6.3 Go

  An open source templating and deployment tool for HashiCorp Nomad jobs

  

Have you looked into levant? Seems like it would allow you to do this. Now, with levant the developer machine would be the thing retrieving the vault secrets, but it may be a useful stopgap.

https://github.com/hashicorp/levant

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• harbormaster

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I had many of the same needs, so I wrote Harbormaster:

https://gitlab.com/stavros/harbormaster

All it does is manage Compose applications, with a sane directory structure. It's been working great, both for my personal use and for a few companies running production workloads on it.

I love that it's super simple and the workflow it has is fantastic, I just push to a repo and everything else happens automatically.

• Nomad

  94 14,422 9.9 Go

  Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.

  

Yeah, this pains me too. Here's a relevant issue to keep an eye on:

https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/3854

I've used an nginx-based S3 proxy in the past to get around this. Not ideal but it works.

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