I've worked with Terraform for about 1.5 years now and I'm not impressed. I think I was spoiled by Amazon's internal (and later, external) tools. Terraform unfortunately falls short in many (fixable!) ways. Let's get into it. Open-loop control Open-loop and closed-loop control is a concept from control systems. An open-loop control system makes changes. A closed-loop system makes changes and checks the outcome is as intended. Terraform checks the state file, queries the service for it's curre...
