Post #3820695

I’m quite deep in the infrastructure as code camp, but I have to admit that the cascade of dependent process and abstractions is a barrier for many coworkers who are otherwise capable of manipulating and understanding the environments we are building. Json, structured editing, interpolation, javascript, templates, managing state and understanding the edge cases and complexities of declarative infrastructure tools, multi-stage deploys, dev/qa/prod instances, parametrizing and secrets management… This is no small ask of someone who has to fix problems, close tickets, and make things work and is used to a more direct manipulate and test loop. Putting this stack of complexity and abstraction in their way has real costs.