> there is a real hole in the market for a simple solution that lets you deploy some containers to some instances in a declarative fashion without all of that complexity and does decent LTS versions
There's Nomad for this; I wish more teams would run Nomad.
Terrably lets you build Terraform & OpenTofu providers in TypeScript, using Node.js or Bun.
Nothing against Go, but I've always wanted to reverse-engineer the Terraform Go Plugin SDK so I can develop providers using TypeScript.
The terrably framework ships with a CLI that can scaffold a new project, run correctness checks, build provider binaries, and publish the provider to the Terraform Provider registry.
Developers can develop and build using Node.js or Bun.
I've also built a toy provider at https://github.com/paambaati/terraform-provider-gpcloud that serves as a real example, as well as a full end-to-end test of the framework. For each new release, we use it to plan, apply & destroy the provider and then publish a new version on the provider registry.
It’s quite often used in npm scripts to cleanup stuff (say, between builds), and many developers prefer that over native solutions like `rm` and `del` as it gives them a cross-platform way of cleaning up files and folders.
I was about to start building a new application and I really wanted to give Fly a shot, but the CLI literally wouldn’t connect to their builder API. The status page was all green, but clearly things weren’t working.
I moved to Render and I’ve had a much better experience.
There's Nomad for this; I wish more teams would run Nomad.