Hello! I’m a product engineer turned SRE, and I’d love to build a Terraform track for Exercism. First though, I want to gauge community interest and check in with Exercism staff.
If you are interested in a Terraform track, could you interact with this post? Either by hearting, viewing, or commenting.
@iHiD I looked through the community forum archives and didn’t find an existing topic on adding a Terraform track. Is this something you’re open to?
Is Terraform something you could use to solve at least 20 practice exercises? Would Two-Fer and Raindrops make sense in Terraform? Exercism tracks and primarily built up around the practice exercises.
Hi there. Thanks for reaching out. I think Isaac’s questions echo mine. Is it suited as a language to build little fun exercises, which is how Exercism works. It could be (I don’t think its necessarily any “weirder” than other languages we have) but I’m not sure
I’d love to see a terraform track. I’ve learned it over the last few months, and the logic surrounding complicated for_each, for, and count expressions seem to have me mystified.
That said, while it’s a different language, it’s also a different mindset surrounding the desided target or end artifact (resources instead of code running). For this reason, I think that we’d need some separate language that would perform unit tests against an output terraform plan, instead of writing unit tests in the language itself.