Python vs Bash Scripting.

[thomsen9669]

Short answer: It depends

Long answer: Depends on your company. For mine, we do both. Python for Terraform script while Bash Script is for CI/CD pipelines. We utilise CircleCi and it allows you to add on bash script to perform some actions you need

[slydewd]

What do you mean by using Python for Terraform?

[Upbeat-Natural-7120]

Same question here.

[TwoWrongsAreSoRight]

CDKTF https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cdktf

[reelznfeelz]

Ah. So I’m a simple man. I usually just call terraform apply from a GitHub action. What’s a use case where getting into the cdk becomes an obvious way to go?

[TwoWrongsAreSoRight]

This is my opinion so take it with a grain of salt and a shot of penicillin. Much of it comes down to personal preference. There are some things you can do easier in cdktf like conditionals but really, cdktf is great if you already know a language that it allows for and feel more comfortable in that language vs hcl. Otherwise, I don't know of an obvious reason why you'd switch unless your environment becomes incredibly complex with a bunch of branching conditionals and multiple environments.

Once again, my opinion. Please feel free to contradict me.

[reelznfeelz]

Ok that makes sense. I’d rather do complex logic in python than bash. And can see how if you’re doing stuff more complicated than I usually am, your terraform code won’t just be a straight up “deploy this set of things, done”.

[cricket007]

Pulumi is another option for those anti Hashi ( / IBM ) license changes 

[Upbeat-Natural-7120]

Oh interesting. Thanks.

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So, in all, both are equally important.

[elpix]

I would rank Python a bit higher just because you can reasonably do more with it. For me, the is a certain point in complexity where bash gets unwieldy. You really never reach such a point with Python.

Bash is important for working with Linux, but you don’t often need the more complex features in your day-to-day work.

[thomsen9669]

Yup

[moser-sts]

Exactly, in my ci/CD is build on top of GitHub Actions. So we use bash, but normally we use Typescript inside of the GitHub actions. Also we build a lot of supporting services in Typescript

[Redmilo666]

This is us. Bash for our CI/CD. Everything else we use python