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I think what you're looking for is micro => https://github.com/micro/micro or the hosted version https://m3o.com. Our goal is basically to abstract the entirety of this away to a common experience from the developers viewpoint.

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Possibly, thanks, I'll look into it. One key is that I'm not looking for an abstraction, I'm looking to provide an abstraction. I run infrastructure teams that provide the infrastructure as a product to other engineering teams, including build and deployment systems. So I need a system that is flexible enough that I can create the abstraction I want to provide. Most of the tools in this space either abstract away everything, in an opinionated way that I don't agree with. Or they abstract away too little, so I would have to write a heavy abstraction over the abstraction. Waypoint, with its plugin system and if the HCL syntax is expanded to support reusable templates/modules, may provide a good building block for me.

If you are a builder of platforms then I agree. You are like me except building it for your own audience. In which case waypoint is quite useful for tying together a number of the pieces.

Garden (https://docs.garden.io/basics/how-garden-works and https://garden.io/) might actually be a good fit. Some of our current users (I'm affiliated) actually use Garden for just the use case you're describing.

But to your point, abstractions are hard, and we've tried to design Garden such that it takes care of the _what_ and _when_ but allows the users to decide the _how_.

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