Hacker GitHub

← All repos

hashicorp/terraform-cdk

View on GitHub ↗ ★ 5,066 TypeScript archived

Define infrastructure resources using programming constructs and provision them using HashiCorp Terraform

30 mentions on Hacker News by 26 people: 7 stories, 23 comments · first 2020-07-19 · latest 2025-12-16

Mentions per year 30 mentions · busiest year 2021 (13)
20082026
AllStoriesComments NewestTopOldest
  1. Hashicorp ships official packages that wrap hcl2json: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@cdktf/hcl2json https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/tree/main/package... I use the package to implement module dependency graph tracking across our…
    comment by jitl · 2025-06-20 · in What would a Kubernetes 2.0 look like
  2. I believe you just discovered cdktf https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk#cdk-for-terraform Also, I couldn't search for samurai in order to know if it's "jinja2 for $other_language" or what, but I just inferred that you wanted a…
    comment by mdaniel · 2025-03-08 · in Yoke: Infrastructure as code, but actually
  3. CDK is literally terraform for developers: https://www.terraform.io/cdktf https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
    comment by thinkmassive · 2024-08-16 · in Nitric Is Terraform for Developers
  4. You can use CDK with other providers using https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk In my experience, CDK is far better than Pulumi, especially if you're mostly going to be using AWS.
    comment by shepherdjerred · 2023-12-06 · in Show HN: Winglang – A new cloud-oriented programming language
  5. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk uses CDK's constructs
    comment by jpraczyk · 2023-05-27 · in Cloud, Why So Difficult?
  6. Why not both? https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
    comment by digianarchist · 2022-11-12 · in AWS IAM Roles, a tale of unnecessary complexity
  7. This already exists. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/
    comment by w1nt3rmut3 · 2022-01-03 · in Terraform Scripting Concepts
  8. Im gonna take this moment to plug cdktf: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk It's something I have been playing with recently and oh boy the possibilities here are really exciting.
    comment by humantorso · 2021-11-04 · in HashiCorp – S1
  9. …Microsoft moving into a position of control & domination in the Javascript/NodeJS ecosystem. [1] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
    comment by vesuvianvenus · 2021-10-10 · in How I built a modern website in 2021
  10. "tempted to give Terraform a look, but if I do, it will be terraform + CDK probably: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk " The above package supports typescript as a language but not nodejs ... no thank you. I don't want to see…
    comment by vesuvianvenus · 2021-10-07 · in Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation
  11. …say I am highly tempted to give Terraform a look, but if I do, it will be terraform + CDK probably: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk For me troubleshooting, speed, and that punch in the gut feeling when you see after 30 mins of…
    comment by eranation · 2021-10-07 · in Terraform vs. AWS CloudFormation
  12. Terraform is also working on allowing actual code: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
    comment by the_duke · 2021-09-19 · in Terraform is not the golden hammer
  13. Have you seen Terraform CDK? https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
    comment by MehdiHK · 2021-06-08 · in Terraform 1.0
  14. There's CDK for Terraform: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
    comment by mwarkentin · 2021-06-08 · in Terraform 1.0
  15. People mention pulumi but hashicorp are creating something similar with https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk . But all the existing terraform providers work with it afaik.
    comment by granra · 2021-06-08 · in Terraform 1.0
  16. …you to drive Terraform from a variety of high-level programming languages instead of it's DSL. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk/
    comment by cmclaughlin · 2021-04-20 · in Pulumi 3.0
  17. …it's not AWS specific - it should work with any Terraform provider and there are heaps available. https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
    comment by cmclaughlin · 2021-04-20 · in Pulumi 3.0
  18. You could try Terraform CDK[0] which supports TypeScript, Python, Java, and C#. [0] https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
    comment by aequitas · 2021-04-20 · in Pulumi 3.0
  19. …modeling my AWS environments with Python using Terraform only as the engine. More info here: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
    comment by cmclaughlin · 2021-04-14 · in Terraform 0.15 General Availability
  20. try out https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk i've had success with it thus far. i'm mostly using mainstream providers at this point though.
    comment by chucky_z · 2020-11-23 · in A Month of Terraform
  21. CDK for Terraform - https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk
    comment by caution · 2020-11-19 · in The Cloud Development Kit for Terraform (Preview)
  22. …with them https://www.hashicorp.com/resources/aws-terraform-landing-zo... and of course the https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk I am not sure what I would think of an offering from one cloud provider to support another cloud…
    comment by utahcon · 2020-11-03 · in AWS hearts multi-cloud? It's gonna happen
  23. I ran into bugs with Pulumi. But I’ve really been enjoying CDK for Terraform - check it out: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk For those that don’t follow this space very closely - this allows yiu to model infrastructure in your…
    comment by cmclaughlin · 2020-11-03 · in AWS hearts multi-cloud? It's gonna happen