Those code bases look pretty stale.
Some don't have tests.
How on earth does one reconcile state between their IaC tool of choice once you've run these tools that have moved the world under IaC feet?
This is besides the point, the AutoSpotting and EBS Optimizer tools are not even in the scope of this release, I just mentioned them for a bit of extra context about myself and what I've been building previously.
Feel free to criticize them, but that code saved thousands of customers over $100M over the years in aggregate, and was launching at some point a non-negligible percentage of the total AWS Spot capacity.
Regarding the OSS repos, I said they're also still available as open source, but evolved a lot since in the commercial version as stated in the readme of AutoSpotting.
For EBS Optimizer, the OSS code base evolved into the Optimizer tool released under the ONCE model as part of this bundle and it's been all but rewritten.
Regarding the lack of tests, the code base has seen many changes since, and critical areas have unit tests now.
When it comes to IaC drift, in case of AutoSpotting and EBS Optimizer the ASGs and volumes are expected to be tagged as per the expected tags, and you can do that through IaC to avoid drift.
The instances launched by the ASG can be replaced by AutoSpotting without creating any IaC drift, because the infrastructure code does not have any reference to the instances.
The same is true for EBS Optimizer, it is expected to run against EBS volumes created when launching instances. The IaC will not show drift because it's not keeping track of the underlying EBS volumes, only launching the instances.
But the Optimizer tool part of this ONCE release will indeed cause drift because it's changing the instance type of RDS databases and Elasticache clusters, which is captured in the IaC code. The drift will need to be resolved after the fact, which is what I do as part of my service work when using this tool for my customers.
These tools saved me a lot of time when saving my customers money, and the TF building blocks are just examples of a few patterns that I used for delivering infra for my customers and I've been thinking it may save some people time from building the same from scratch.
If you're not interested in these, fair enough, some people already bought these.
Absolute madness, you dreamin.