Feature announcement: the Container Driver

The Humanitec team has released the Container Driver, a new type of driver that provides flexibility to Platform Engineering teams for integrating additional tools and technologies with the Platform Orchestrator. The Container Driver runs a container in a Kubernetes cluster, handling common driver tasks, such as provisioning resources, and can be used with various infrastructure as code (IaC) tools like Terraform, Pulumi, and AWS CloudFormation. It offers significant flexibility without requiring teams to write custom drivers, addressing the limitations of existing Terraform Driver due to licensing changes. The Container Driver provides a simple way for users to provision resources by running a container that writes outputs to specific JSON files, with optional configuration options such as image, command, and environment variables.