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0 pointsxorcist4y ago0 comments

Indeed. Terraform is a single point of failure because it explicitly needs to keep state. For larger environments this is a headache.

Ansible can read the running state which is more robust. External modifications of state happens, if nothing else than as a result of failure modes not under your control. Setting and reading state explicitly is a feature. Code should be committed to git at all times.

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hedwall4y ago

For larger environments infrastructure drift is a much bigger headache then that Terraform has to store a json blob somewhere. Having a combination of state and reading running state (like Terraform does) is crucial to have a tool that can scale for large environments.

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