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Jeff Geerling

If IBM decides to merge Terraform and Ansible, would that be Terrible?

28 comments
Linh Pham

@geerlingguy I wonder if they consider renaming Ansible to EBCDICble?

Compuguy, Lover of Cats 😸😼

@geerlingguy To be fair Hasicorp has already done enough to tarnish themselves. I'm sure IBM can 1+ that *easily*!

Anton Ohorodnyk

@geerlingguy It maybe not popular opinion, but it have sense to spin-up infra and configure VMs from the same codebase

Michael Sumner

@geerlingguy probably in a "now there's three competing standards" kinda way 😄

Marcus Franke

@geerlingguy Seen this in reality already. Ansible templates generating terraform code .. Terrible is a sound description

waldi

@Comradin @geerlingguy You get that with a language not supporting any control structures.

I generate provider definitions. But at least you can have Terraform code in JSON form.

p1ng

@geerlingguy why not? As long as we have #OpenTofu and #Nix, I don’t care too much.

HAMMER SMASHED SIR 🇺🇦

@geerlingguy remember when adobe acquired macromedia, and merged illustrator and freehand into
frustrator?

Pete Wildsmith

@geerlingguy good one. Seriously though, IBM owning both Ansible and Terraform seems like a problem. I’ve contacted my local competition authority, will you consider contacting yours?

gullevek ☢️

@geerlingguy Dad Joke of the year ... and I feel like it would be ... Terrible.

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