Josh Pollara

RIP .tfstate. Meet Stategraph.

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

Crossplane's pitch is that you graduate to it once you outgrow Terraform. It's a false narrative.

You didn't outgrow #Terraform. You outgrew the state file.

The global mutex. The all-or-nothing apply. The drift. None of it is HCL. None of it is the providers. It is a flat JSON file doing the work of a database.

Crossplane's fix is to set the world on fire. New language, all in on Kubernetes, no plan preview. That is not graduation. You emigrate, and you leave your ecosystem behind.

You outgrew the file. So replace the file. Not the language, not the providers, not the workflow. The freakin' state file.

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

Because middle management is typically bad, and companies finally have their excuse. Anecdotal, but every engineer I talk to at a largeish company says the same thing.

Here's the AI connection though. AI collapsed the cost of execution, so the bottleneck moved to coordination. The thing slowing you down is no longer writing the code, it's the layer between deciding and shipping. So the layer that was always overhead rather than leverage is the one getting cut. Flatten the org and information flows to where the work is. That isn't cost-cutting, it's the critical path getting shorter.

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

@adamhjk rsync is one of the best tools out there and it holds a special place in my heart. whenever i type rsync i always say to myself "source, destination" because one time i reversed it with the --delete flag. that was fun.

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

Cost estimation in Terraform has always been a bolt-on. Run plan, export to JSON, hand it to a separate tool, read back a number that lives outside the operation.

Stategraph prices inside plan.

The cost delta is part of the plan output. Per resource. Per state. The same transaction that computes the change computes its price.

2 to add → +$22.78/mo. aws_instance.api +$15.18. aws_instance.web +$7.59.

I don't know of another tool that does this in the plan operation itself. If you do, name it.

#terraform #finops

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

The industry has treated file-based #Terraform state as an immutable constraint for a decade.

It isn't. It's a choice. And it's the wrong one.

Infrastructure state is a distributed systems problem masquerading as file storage. PostgreSQL solved this 30 years ago. We just applied it.

https://t.co/MH4qMh7aKD

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

WOMP WOMP -- Can GitHub just freakin' work?!?! Focus on stability.

#62 10.86 error: unexpected status from HEAD request to https://t.co/OLkHdiaLWQ: 502 Bad Gateway

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

@thisiskp_ @Netlify How do you handle the orchestration side of things?

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

@SlabbedWorks No time like the present!

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

@CamBlackwood95 I pluck a nose hair

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

@LiamKearney99 @jessfraz Yeah I agree. It was a really snarky email. I doubt the support person felt motivated to assist. Being more kind can really do wonders in these kinds of situations.

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

@theseanodell Yeah I love Ronald McDonald

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

@__steele Can do this in three lines of yaml with Terrateam

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

https://t.co/8polLBjCEh

[Mike D. @mdolan]

@OpenTofuOrg has some impressive activity. Just in last month, "27 authors have pushed 34 commits to main and 139 commits to all branches. On main, 1,459 files have changed and there have been 12,712 additions and 3,768 deletions." Get involved: https://t.co/OIGxsp7b5l

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

https://t.co/0lalxpuKRG

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

@sabine_s_ Volunteering Malcolm Matalka who isn't on Twitter but he wants in. Terrateam is 100% OCaml.

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

Hey @MindyGenAI -- your staging environment is sending out real emails. oops!

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

@gaijin5 @bphogan Be careful. He's Gen X.

[Josh Pollara @jpollara]

@coryodaniel My go to is "you wouldn't like this. it's really spicy."