Should I stop work on CfnMason or any project?

Sun, 19 Apr 2020 08:55:09 -0400

Off and on for years, and at various companies, I have developed various tools to manage complex AWS CloudFormation templates and stacks. This came out of the lack of tooling that was associated with CloudFormation itself. It was not that CFN was bad, (it is notoriously picky) it is just that it was designed with the intention of being a way to treat your infrastructure in code based manner. That is really not true. CFN was created as a templating language with defined spec.

Terraform vs Cloudformation — First Thoughts

Sun, 06 Nov 2016 10:25:09 -0500

Building out AWS infrastructures by hand is not something that should be taken on lightly. Just as in building out a Data Center or service in any cloud environment (Google, VMWare, etc), building out a bunch of systems by hand is a good way to inherit a bunch of technical debt and a headache or three. On top of that, it is slow and cumbersome to build out servers in a manual fashion, and since it is done manually, it is easy to make mistakes and introduce snowflakes into your environment. Instead, we need to address the build out with automation tooling.

CloudFormation on Codex.org

Should I stop work on CfnMason or any project?

Terraform vs Cloudformation — First Thoughts