Full Stack Journey 032: Lyra Vs. Terraform – Meet The New Kid In Cloud Native Infrastructure Provisioning

Previous episodes of the Full Stack Journey have covered infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform (like episode 27 with Curt Micol) and Pulumi (see episode 30 with Luke Hoban).
Today we look at a new infrastructure-as-code tool called Lyra. Lyra is an open-source engine for provisioning and managing cloud-native infrastructure.
Joining me to talk about Lyra is Eric Sorenson. Eric is a product manager at Puppet and a key Lyra contributor.
Eric and I discuss:

* Details of the Lyra project
* Why you’d use Lyra instead of some other infrastructure-as-code tool
* How Lyra reflects the evolution of open source
* Every infrastructure-as-code tool has to deal with state; how does Lyra do it?
* Lyra’s Kubernetes support
* Prerequisites to get started with Lyra

Check the Show Links below for resources mentioned during the show.
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Show Links:
Lyra GitHub repository
Lyra website
Rancher Terraform Operator for Kubernetes
Ansible Operator for Kubernetes
Puppet Community Slack
Lyra Docker images
Lyra Project on Twitter