Scaffold
Infrastructure
infrastructure as code
SHOW HN2020
19points
4comments
#1,740of 3,028 in 2020
Top 58%of 2020 by points
How HN took it
QuietFewer than 5 comments about the project
1 positive, 1 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 1 critical, out of 3 comments about the project.
Idea: 1 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Useful for front-end developers avoiding devops
From 1 comment
> I don't understand whats the value added on top of normal > CDK. There I can also define Aws infrastructure with > Typescript and I don't have to pay a subscription. That was…
cmclaughlin on HN
Objections
Unclear value over plain CDK, which is free
From 1 comment
I don't understand whats the value added on top of normal CDK. There I can also define Aws infrastructure with Typescript and I don't have to pay a subscription.
sheeeep86 on HN
Questions
Why pay for enterprise plan instead of open-source
From 1 comment
Why do you want to use the enterprise plan and not the open-source one? It's free, open-source, you could generate a complete infrastructure in seconds, you could manage multiple…
jeremylevy on HN
Alternatives named
AWS CDK
From 1 comment
I don't understand whats the value added on top of normal CDK. There I can also define Aws infrastructure with Typescript and I don't have to pay a subscription.
sheeeep86 on HN
Gruntwork
From 1 comment
It looks like the value add is similar to gruntwork.io where they maintain a catalog of scripts (hopefully) designed with best practices in mind
derision on HN
cdktf
From 1 comment
> I don't understand whats the value added on top of normal > CDK. There I can also define Aws infrastructure with > Typescript and I don't have to pay a subscription. That was…
cmclaughlin on HN