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Which infrastructure-as-code vendor moved the needle on community repositories/hubs in 2020 and why?
Puppet’s done some interesting things to visually spruce up the discovery experience and incorporate learning guides into the raw module content. It doesn’t seem like the guides are community sourced yet though, which is a bummer.
Ansible Galaxy doesn’t feel like it’s moved past the IBM acquisition which is a shame bc its enormous volume of content really calls for a best-in-class discovery experience.
I’m still flattered by Ansible’s choice to borrow *exactly* the community score choices we implemented on Forge years back, though it looks like Forge dropped them?
Participation probably wasn’t where it needed to be.
Participation probably wasn’t where it needed to be.
I half expected HashiCorp to be doing the most interesting things, and the Terraform Registry site is super fast- but it hits the baseline and nothing more.
AWS has SAR but it feels like a prank played on the DA community who share content through a couple of GitHub orgs. The discovery experience is Twitter which, if you think about it, is pretty damn solid for this community.
Is Pulumi doing anything in the community-sourced content space? I couldn’t find it but it feels like they would/should be.
Finally, I still appreciate Chef’s dedication to silly naming w/ Supermarket and I think they're the only ones who open-sourced their platform code. I really should have done this at Puppet.
My takeaway from a bit of research is that it’s all a bit stale when IaC content in public cloud is anything but. What am I missing?
Why isn’t anyone backing their platform with CI-driven validations in the public?
What will it take for CloudFormation to be publicly reusable?
Why isn’t anyone backing their platform with CI-driven validations in the public?
What will it take for CloudFormation to be publicly reusable?
I didn’t exactly miss but neglected to mention Puppet’s Relay. It’s dissapointingly separated from its Forge sibling, but they’re doing interesting things to blend code and guides while making it dead-simple to launch workflows in the SaaS.
E.g. https://relay.sh/integrations/aws-cloudformation/
E.g. https://relay.sh/integrations/aws-cloudformation/
There’s probably a whole thread to be had on event-driven IT automation companies and their fledgling content ecosystems. I’d bet Relay is in front on that.
