Imperative infrastructure tools have trade-offs, but they help us directly and explicitly manage our infrastructure. We’ve embraced these tools and the philosophy they encourage. We are much better for it.

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Declarative infrastructure tools can do more with less code and are another abstraction on top of hardware. Declarative tools are, by design, implicit. It’s not your concern how the tool creates the final state, but that you specified it correctly. This becomes more complicated with more moving parts.

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Are declarative infrastructure tools simpler?