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We should make an effort to redefine how we use 'infrastructure-as-code', because right now Pulumi/Troposphere/Azure PowerShell and Ansible/Terraform/etc. are indistinguishable when viewed that way, despite the former being much more useful.

Infrastructure-as-verisonable-flat-configuration-files should not be thought of as infrastructure-as-code.

Pulumi would be perfect if the community edition was simply self hosted without support vs free with a single user only. At a stingy small org, I have no hope of ever using it instead of simply installing Terraform when the starter edition excludes secrets management and the API.

It's a bit rocky and I've been filing bugs to help, but S3 state support is strictly no worse than Terraform's and supports secrets just fine.

That's good to hear! Admittedly the main issue for us is convincing others that 1 user at $50/month is justifiable.

S3 support's free. It definitely works well enough.

Haven't heard of Pulumi before your comment but will be sure to check it out now :)