31. CloudFormation or Terraform?
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The Modularity of Terraform
There's so many options, there are almost too many. The simplest one is probably custom resources or you can fairly quickly create a custom resource and use AWS Lambda to fulfill the creation update or delete of that resource in your account. You also have support for CloudFormation modules now. And another thing you can put into the CloudFormation registry is a CloudFormation resource type - this is where you're going all full on with creating your own Resource Type. There's a command line tool that you can use to bootstrap this and to publish it to the CloudFormated registry. But it's essentially like adding a feature intoCloudFormation when you're adding a properly functioning service
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