HashiCorp (now IBM) has officially archived the CDK for Terraform project, ending a five-year experiment in programmatic infrastructure-as-code. Full episode page: https://platformengineeringplaybook.com/podcasts/00056-cdktf-deprecated-iac-migration In this episode, we break down:- Why CDKTF failed to find product-market fit (243K downloads vs Pulumi's 1.1M)- The four key factors behind the deprecation: Pulumi's head start, JSII complexity, HCL "good enough", IBM acquisition timing- Community reaction and the "rug pull" sentiment- Migration paths: HCL (cdktf synth --hcl), Pulumi, OpenTofu, or AWS CDK- What platform engineers should learn about vendor lock-in risk Plus news on Envoy CVE-2025-0913 (CVSS 8.6), Google's managed MCP servers, OpenTofu 1.11, pgAdmin 4 v9.11, Lima v2.0, and Amazon ECS custom stop signals. If you're on CDKTF, start your migration analysis this week. The programmatic IaC dream isn't dead—it just won't be at HashiCorp. Sources:- CDKTF Repository: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-cdk- Hacker News Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42379268- Pulumi: https://www.pulumi.com/- OpenTofu: https://opentofu.org/ #DevOps #PlatformEngineering #InfrastructureAsCode #Terraform #CDKTF #Pulumi #OpenTofu #HashiCorp #IBM #CloudNative