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A team wants to ditch HCL for Pulumi because they prefer TypeScript. Where do you agree, and where do you refuse?

General-purpose IaC earns its complexity where application engineers own infrastructure and benefit from typed components and unit tests. It disappoints when the pitch was freedom: the engine still builds a graph, still keeps state, and still forbids most of the clever runtime logic people expect to write.

Updated Sep 2026 · Grounded in researched DevOps, SRE and platform engineering interview loops, written to a senior-engineer editorial bar, and never padded to hit a word count.

General-purpose IaC earns its complexity where application engineers own infrastructure and benefit from typed components and unit tests. It disappoints when the pitch was freedom: the engine still builds a graph, still keeps state, and still forbids most of the clever runtime logic people expect to write.

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