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Can we just agree that none of these tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK) are particularly good? None of them really achieve the goal of purely declarative, immutable, stateless infrastructure-as-code and all of them have significant disadvantages.

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Agreed. We use Pulumi and it's fine, but the state-managing feels brittle.

I think the state-of-the-art is Kubernetes + jsonnet, though you still need to suffer through the learning curve and you'll still need TF and company to provision some of your cloud resources.

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