Platform engineering is the discipline of designing and building toolchains and workflows that enable self-service capabilities for software engineering organizations in the cloud-native era.

Platform Engineering

That was a good read, using tf for kubernetes deployments just feels weird :joy:, when we first moved to kubernetes I looked into it we decided to stick with pure helm, now were working on moving away from tf and moving to crossplane with Argo for app deployments.

Yeah deploying k8s resources via TF also left a bad smell for us

Shifted away entirely back to helmcharts and using a proper CD solution to deploy (Spinnaker in our case)

I would not recommend to use terraform to create kubernetes resources and instead use gitops. We are working with the open source community to have implementations for the gitops-bridge pattern starting with Terraform+ArgoCD <https://github.com/gitops-bridge-dev/gitops-bridge|https://github.com/gitops-bridge-dev/gitops-bridge>

I came to the same conclusion. For hobby projects that already use tf anyway i think it's fine, but for anything professional better go with gitops

I would not do it even for hobby projects