Magic-modules Alternatives

magic-modules reviews and mentions

• Magic-Modules: Seamlessly Integrate Google Cloud with Terraform
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Aug 2024
• What went wrong with UniSuper and Google Cloud?
  2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 May 2024

  While we're at it, it also looks like the provider couldn't provision stretched clusters at all until mid-April. I don't know what I think this means for the theory presented in the article. Maybe Uni was new to TF (or even actively onboarding) and paid the beginner's tax? TF is great at turning beginner mistakes into "you deleted your infra."

  Relevant discussion is on https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules/pull/10... and relevant code changes are on https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google/pull/...

• I think GCP is better than AWS – by Fernando Villalba
  6 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Oct 2023
• Terraform Plugin Framework Development: How to implement nested attributes?
  5 projects | /r/Terraform | 11 Apr 2022

  In the case of the Google Cloud Platform provider, folks at Google built magic modules with the explicit goal of being able to generate schemas and behaviors for a Terraform provider and for other systems with similar needs. Since the vendor was explicitly aiming to support Terraform, this was the most ideal case where the schema could be designed to contain all of the information needed to generate a functional, usable provider.

• How to contribute/update to a Terraform provider?
  1 project | /r/Terraform | 11 Oct 2021

  I think the "Developing the provider" instructions in this provider's repository are rather stale, because they still talk about GOPATH even though that's been obsolete for several Go versions now. Note also that much of the code in that repository is auto-generated from an upstream repository googleCloudPlatform/magic-modules, and so for some changes it may be better to contribute there once you've tested the modifications more directly inside the provider repository.

• Terraform 1.0 Release
  33 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 8 Jun 2021

  For GCP, both ansible modules and terraform modules are actually generated from https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules, so their "production readiness" are the same.

  I understand that mitchellh himself personally created a bunch of cloud modules for terraform at the beginning, and those were likely of higher quality than whatever created by some internal developers assigned by Google/Microsoft, and might be slightly better than the AWS modules maintained by community.

  Anyway, when it comes to ansible versus terraform, we shall move the discourse to states management instead. With ansible, you don't have to deal with states, but will need to clean up the cloud resources separately. With terraform, you can use the tool to clean up the cloud resources easily, but then you also have the headache of managing states. Plus, whenever you change something, there is always the nagging feeling that it will do a destroy/recreate instead of an in-place update.

• Pulumi 3.0
  5 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2021

  The Terraform provider for Google Cloud uses partial autogeneration, here is the repo that does the autogeneration for multiple automation tools:

  https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules

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