On: Terraform Scripting Concepts

[jen20]

The official name for .tf files is a “configuration”, per the code base.

[rch → jen20]

Which makes sense in the context of managing "configuration as code".

Once configuration is code, i.e. Turing complete, something has gone awry.

[jen20 → rch]

Indeed - infrastructure being defined with a declarative model makes perfect sense. One need not use a DSL to achieve that though.