alt Hacker NewsBeing able to inherit from Ingress and add a parameter of say public=True/False and then it change annotations, middleware, etc and then being able to re-use that across 100s of stacks is very powerful. DRY is not something HCL is good at.
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bigstrat2003 • last Thursday at 12:16 AM
That is... not a good idea at all imo. It's very, very easy to over-DRY infrastructure config and it sounds like you're well past that point.
JojoFatsani • last Thursday at 12:39 AM
Make a module
Getting too clever with an imperative language in what is inherently a declarative domain, is an idea bad enough that they invented a whole new language to avoid you doing it. But some lessons have to be learned the hard way I guess