Building Infrastructure Automation Without Terraform for Fly.io
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Fly.io's approach to infrastructure automation without Terraform raises concerns about vendor lock-in.
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nurple
4 months ago
Sounds like "we don't want you to have a portable abstraction between our platform and your automation". Also, their documentation directing users to reference github actions `@master` is classic fly...
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