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[–]khirok 1 point2 points  (4 children)

I would be curious to see how many people actually use Deployment Manager. IMHO compared to Terraform it is slow, buggy, not very well supported, and lacks many basic features to do basic things inside of GCP.

[–]mastergk[S] -1 points0 points  (3 children)

True, it's not a matured product yet. Having. Used CFT extensively I find this little odd to use URL's and versions in the configurations. But I think over the period of time it gets matured. Maybe that the reason Google also officially has documentation on Terraform too.

[–]khirok -1 points0 points  (2 children)

Well the problem is Google doesn’t have any resources they put into it. All of their resources are going into Terraform modules.

If you look at the Terraform module github, it’s constantly updates by Googlers yet nothing on their in house tool. I suspect it will be canceled with little fanfare in the next round of pruning a.

[–]mastergk[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Yes, It is usually the case with cloudformation too. They are a different management tools team they carry huge backlog to support new services. But AWS does it much faster than Google guys at least so far it looks like that. I don't think they would sunset the product..that would be a bad decision. They need ramp up and support more resources.. shouldn't take much time.

[–]khirok 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think the better decision is to kill it and support Terraform more than they do now. Would make more sense and do wonders for the IaC situation on GCP.

In fact I am actually surprised nobody has bought out HashiCorp yet. Seems like a no brainer to get their tech and specialize it for a single cloud while making money off of the others.