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For the moment at least, it's much more comfortable for us to keep our databases outside of kubernetes, so we use saltstack(masterless), packer, and terraform to manage them. We also use terraform to manage all of our DNS, which is split between Route53 and the GCP DNS service.

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Thanks! I have been meaning to give terraform a try to replace some of our custom gcloud + gcloud deployment descriptors. Also so that we don't need a separate docker compose version for development (I'm assuming in theory you can run terraform to do what docker compose does?).

> Also so that we don't need a separate docker compose version for development (I'm assuming in theory you can run terraform to do what docker compose does?).

Not really. Terraform is much more meant as a tool for manipulating production infrastructure (primarily clouds), not for orchestrating Docker containers (including locally).

I'd strongly recommend you use the right tool for the job and it's a very rare job where Terraform is a good alternative to docker-compose.

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