Pulumi a viable Terraform alternative?
Pulumi a viable Terraform alternative?
Posted Aug 30, 2023 10:20 UTC (Wed) by mbunkus (subscriber, #87248)In reply to: HashiCorp, Terraform, and OpenTF by jezuch
Parent article: HashiCorp, Terraform, and OpenTF
I've looked at Pulumi several times over the past years and always found it intriguing. Given the current situation, I did so again. Unfortunately it still seems to lack behind Terraform significantly wrt. the number of infrastructure providers that're supported (what Terraform calls "providers"). If I understand things correctly, I could not migrate a single one of my currently active, Terraform-based projects to Pulumi due to one or more infrastructure provider not being supported by Pulumi. Sure, if you're into the usual huge, mostly American providers, Pulumi seems to have you well covered, but outside of that things don't look so good.
I know there's this thing called "Pulumi Terraform Bridge" which claims to be able to "adapt any Terraform Provider built using the Terraform Plugin SDK for use with Pulumi"[1]. Reading its README, it still seems to require actual coding work for each and every provider to be used this way? It isn't a tool for end-users to just install & then be able to use one of the Terraform providers. Is that correct? I'd be delighted to be proven wrong here!
I'd really love to have an alternative to Terraform as I firmly believe that competition pretty much always benefits us end-users. At the moment I don't see it to be an alternative for me.