Random thought about System Initiative

System Initiative is finally GA and claim itself to be the future of DevOps.

I give it a try and build something like this:

I have little to no experience about AWS, it cool to build a system by drag-and-drop and connecting points.

To make this possible, System Initiative builds a full-fidelity model of AWS resources. Every change can be checked without actually connect to AWS.

Under the hood, SI call it a graph of reactive function. All the schemas and actions is defined as source code that is reactive to its inputs.

To me, System Initiative feels like a 3rd generation of infrastructure automation.

1. 1st generation: Terraform, declactive modeling
2. 2nd generation: Pulumi, programable
3. 3rd generation: System Initiative, full-fidelity model

However, it’s not IaC, at least in it’s current form.

Tools like System Initiative should be provided by cloud vendors, rather than a third-party company and community.

AWS should buy System Initiative.

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