http://www.se-radio.net/2017/04/se-radio-episode-289-james-turnbull-on-decla... SE-Radio Episode 289: James Turnbull on Declarative Programming with Terraform James Turnbull rejoins the show with Robert Blumen <http://www.se-radio.net/team/#Blumen> for a conversation mostly about Terraform, as well as a bit about Puppet. Terraform is a declarative programming tool for automating infrastructure resource creation; it targets resource providers, such as Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Digital Ocean, and other cloud and SAAS back ends. The discussion explores the programming language used by Terraform (TF); what TF does when it runs; why a declarative language is a good fit for infrastructure resource creation; and how infrastructure operation is becoming more like programming, with a build pipeline, testing, and deployment. The episode considers TF’s internals, its similarities and differences with Puppet, and some speculation about whether declarative programming is the future of programming. About SE-Radio Software Engineering Radio is a podcast targeted at the professional software developer. The goal is to be a lasting educational resource, not a newscast. Three to four times per month, we publish a new episode talking to experts from the software engineering world about the full range of topics that matter to professional developers. All SE Radio episodes feature original content; we don’t record conferences or talks given in other venues. SE Radio is managed by the volunteers and staff of IEEE Software, a leading technical magazine for software professionals published by the IEEE Computer Society. All content is licensed under the Creative Commons 2.5 license. SE Radio was founded in January 2006 by Markus Voelter. It joined forces with IEEE Software in February 2012.