I used terraform with my AWS deployments because there were lots of examples and I pretty much was able to find a solution that matched my problem and copy paste.

Then, I needed to launch infra in GCP and I messed around with terraform unsuccessfully for a few days before writing about 10 lines of gcloud CLI commands into a makefile.

Now I just check a makefile into my project and just break things up into little shell scripts.

Solved so many problems and headaches.