Wanting IAC to be procedural instead of declarative is like saying you want SQL to be procedural.
You’re not telling AWS how to do something you’re telling it what you want the end state to be and let it figure out what needs to be created, updated, deleted, or replaced and the dependency chain what can be run in parallel when you create or update the template.
There are linters and editors for CloudFormation that help you with autocomplete (?) and to warn you when you are specifying a a resource type. You can even add your own custom definitions to the linters for custom resource types that you create.
CloudFormation just like generic SQL doesn’t by itself have the concept of loops. CloudFormation does support custom transforms and macros that you can create in any language and you can write programs that generate CF in many languages using the CDK where it will perform validation. I haven’t used it so I am being really hand wavy.
You’re not telling AWS how to do something you’re telling it what you want the end state to be and let it figure out what needs to be created, updated, deleted, or replaced and the dependency chain what can be run in parallel when you create or update the template.
There are linters and editors for CloudFormation that help you with autocomplete (?) and to warn you when you are specifying a a resource type. You can even add your own custom definitions to the linters for custom resource types that you create.
CloudFormation just like generic SQL doesn’t by itself have the concept of loops. CloudFormation does support custom transforms and macros that you can create in any language and you can write programs that generate CF in many languages using the CDK where it will perform validation. I haven’t used it so I am being really hand wavy.