We use pyinvoke to orchestrate terraform invocations and feed the outputs to chalice configuration files. We then intercept the chalice deployed resources and feed them back into dependent terraform modules as inputs. It's been incredibly smooth for us and we're able to get deterministic environments that are easy to debug, modify and deploy. It takes a little imperative glue to manage dependencies, but the bulk of the configuration is declaratively defined and I've been incredibly happy with this workflow.
I’d previously done my terraform work with invoke and jinja2 stamping out HCL templates - never tried going straight to JSON but that makes sense. Thanks for sharing — I’ll have to try Chalice just to see how it works.
