#variant (2020-01)

https://github.com/mumoshu/variant

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2020-01-24

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tolstikov

@mumoshu are you sure about HCL as the main format? https://github.com/mumoshu/variant2 :)

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse) avatar
Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

that looks incredibly readable

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nutellinoit

It’s like a dream

loren avatar

looks incredible to me

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tolstikov

but no back-compatibility…

loren avatar

that’s why it’s v2

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tolstikov

yeah, I can understand that and the motivation behind the decision to move to HCL, but still I have some doubts at this point…

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

So I think HCL is a pretty nice language

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

I thought it was interesting that v1 of GitHub actions adopted it (kind of like a vote of confidence)

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

but then when they reverted to YAML, i scratched my head

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tolstikov

anyway, need to check it in action, definitely

loren avatar

using terraform as a library for its built-in functions is pretty awesome

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2020-01-25

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joshmyers

Terragrunt did this also, good times

2020-01-30

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Erik Osterman (Cloud Posse)

not a deep dive or anything, it just happened to come up in the course of our conversation

2020-01-31

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