CloudFormation has a lot of things going for it, but it was unsuitable for us ~18 months ago when I was looking around for a way to "infrastructure as code"-ify our setup, because it can't "adopt" existing resources into your setup, and we have tons of stuff we don't want to bring down/up just to bring under cloudformation.
I used the terraforming gem (either because "terraform import" didnt' exist at the time, or because I just didn't like the way it worked) to bring a lot of things under management by terraform.
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CloudFormation has a lot of things going for it, but it was unsuitable for us ~18 months ago when I was looking around for a way to "infrastructure as code"-ify our setup, because it can't "adopt" existing resources into your setup, and we have tons of stuff we don't want to bring down/up just to bring under cloudformation.
I used the terraforming gem (either because "terraform import" didnt' exist at the time, or because I just didn't like the way it worked) to bring a lot of things under management by terraform.