> there is a real hole in the market for a simple solution that lets you deploy some containers to some instances in a declarative fashion without all of that complexity and does decent LTS versions
There's Nomad for this; I wish more teams would run Nomad.
Terrably lets you build Terraform & OpenTofu providers in TypeScript, using Node.js or Bun.
Nothing against Go, but I've always wanted to reverse-engineer the Terraform Go Plugin SDK so I can develop providers using TypeScript.
The terrably framework ships with a CLI that can scaffold a new project, run correctness checks, build provider binaries, and publish the provider to the Terraform Provider registry.
Developers can develop and build using Node.js or Bun.
I've also built a toy provider at https://github.com/paambaati/terraform-provider-gpcloud that serves as a real example, as well as a full end-to-end test of the framework. For each new release, we use it to plan, apply & destroy the provider and then publish a new version on the provider registry.
Good point. This could very easily lead to the same problems plaguing the NPM ecosystem — an action repo could be sold to a malicious actor, giving them full access to your entire codebase!
There's Nomad for this; I wish more teams would run Nomad.