Note I will refer to OpenTofu in this post, however everything I say applies equally to Terraform. Tofu uses HCL to define infrastructure. It’s fairly simple. Closer to a configuration language than a programming language. Choosing a DSL for a product can be hit-or-miss, but in this case I’m fairly pro-DSL. Given the goals of Terraform (the project OpenTofu is a forked from), using something like YAML would quickly become difficult to manage infrastructure at scale, and a full-fledged pro...
