Describe the target, let the machine figure it out.

The world has changed.

I am showing examples of how ChatGPT is changing my workflow.

Infrastructure as Code

One way to deploy new infrastructure is to work interactively with the cloud’s provider graphical UI and rewrite it in the IaC suite of your choice.

However, re-writing it feels like redundant work.

Using terraform as an example there are several options:

1. terraform import
2. terraformer
3. terracognita
4. …

They all work (to some degree). However, the mental impedance for using them only once in a while is considerable, e.g. remembering the syntax, gotchas, etc…