Interest in Terraform track?

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?

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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.

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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 :slight_smile:

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.