!rant

Just ran a terraform configuration to set up my infrastructure on digital ocean

My god i'm in love

Hmm... might be that I haven't tried it enough but my impression was that it's pretty useless without ansible to run afterwards. For me it was nothing more than simple powering on a machine with an os I want and a really simple provisioning like ssh keys.. everything else seems to be more natural to do in ansible afterwards. But I am pretty open for corrections to my experience so far.

@ShotgunSurgeon I got a colleague that said the exact same thing, he also used ansible afterwards to setup actual servers etc.

Still tho, the fact that another part of my workflow can be automated is amazing and it works so nicely

Terraform and Ansible work really well together. Terraform for setting up the infrastructure, and Ansible for configuring what's on it.

EDIT: maybe it's more useful to me since I'm using it at work to spin up hundreds of cloud resources.