Hey guys, I’m wondering how many of you actually use Terragrunt vs Terraform in medium size platforms. The team I’m joining currently supports under 10 teams but is moving towards scaling out to support many more. They’re using Terragrunt with versioned terraform modules but it’s a hassle as every patch update requires multiple updates in many repos. Terraform seems a little simpler to scale as using semver constrains on modules allows existing deployments to just pull the newest versions without a large update effort. Anyone have points for or against either approach?

IMHO the issue isn’t the IaC code you are using, it is how the terraform is run as federated across repositories. This is where the platform orchestrator idea from the TW Radar (and more details from the two mentioned of the vendors in the space Syntasso and Humanitec - with the disclaimer I work at Syntasso!). It may be worth thinking about orchestration would help with the day 2 issues without losing the value of versioning.

The orchestrators make sense, I just have a weird case as we deploy 2/3rds of our environments on airgapped clouds. I looked into it a while ago and think there were a few open source orchestrators projects going on that I might revisit. Terragrunt is just driving me crazy, too DRY for my taste.

Tbf, any tech in airgapped can drive a person mad! 😅

Let me chime in here - and reinforce the “airgapped is madness meme” ™️ lolsob Humanitec also supports working with airgapped environments. Here’s some documentation on that --> https://humanitec.com/customers/government-institution

Oh interesting, I didn’t realize there were offerings for this. I’ll take a look !