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This is silly but I will not use any Hashicorp product ever again, for two reasons: one is Terraform (it is a bad product with a bad DSL), the second is that I bought one service from them that advertised a clear 30-day money back guarantee, found a bug in one hour of running, a multiple-year old Github issue they had been ignoring, and to make it worse, they completely ghosted me when I went to ask for a refund. Both on Twitter and via email.

So, I don't really care to try out Nomad for my business, honestly.

Nah, it's not silly - you had bad experiences with a company, it's normal not to want to interact with them further. I'm personally not a fan of Microsoft because I spent my formative tech years installing Windows on family friends' PCs and had so much inconsistencies and issues that I have a very negative association with Windows and Microsoft.

I disagree with the DSL part, but it's in big part subjective so people have all sorts of different experiences and opinions.

Terraform may seem bad, but cloud-specific solutions like Cloud Formation are even worse...

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