> I have actively stayed away from AWS in the past few years b/c it has such a bad UX/DX and yet....it grows.
A lot of people are probably using something like puppet/chef/ansible/terraform and don’t encounter the web console very often.
A lot of people are probably using something like puppet/chef/ansible/terraform and don’t encounter the web console very often.
I think CloudFormation is difficult to use and could be much easier, but ops rant about the AWS UI being unfriendly makes it sound like he’s not really the kind of customer AWS is really after.
I started a chat with AWS after giving them the ARN of the template. He looked through my CloudTrail logs and the documentation and couldn’t figure it out either. He said he would get back to me....
He created a simplified CF template that reproduced the problem, talked to an CF developer, he said the developer looked through the code of the API call that CF was attempting and they found that the property was case sensitive. The guys at Hashicorp couldnt do that.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a Hashicorp fanboy when it comes to onpremise implementations. I developed a system around Consul, Nomad, and Vault with a helping of Fabio.