nah. i’ve heard the cross-cloud argument multiple times and it does not hold any water. i wish we lives in a world where we could do cloud agnostic stuff but the reality is that you have your aws terraform files, your gcp terraform files and so on.

Cloudformation? Like the tool that bring you from state A to state B or if it cannot rolls back to state A? Yeah. It’s an abomination for a tool to leave infra in a consistent state. Who would want that?

Re: checkout the code and apply again. What if I told you that terraform can mess up so hard that it won’t work? What if I told you that sometimes you will not be able to rollback OR even destroy your infra?

Here is an exercise for you. Create some infra with terraform and do a destroy and tell me if it managed to cleanup everything? I’m gonna bet you that for anything less than trivial you are gonna have a bad time. The solution? Tag shit and use a python script to cleanup. I’m not even kiddding.