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User is exploring the use of explicit stacks in Terragrunt but finds the process cumbersome. They suggest that improvements could be made to the documentation or tooling to make explicit stacks more user-friendly and less tedious to implement.
Currently using terragrunt [implicit stacks](https://docs.terragrunt.com/features/stacks#implicit-stacks) and they're working great. Has anyone bothered to use [explicit stacks](https://docs.terragrunt.com/features/stacks#explicit-stacks) with the unit and stack blocks? I initially just set up implicit stacks because I was trying to sell terragrunt to the team and they are a lot more familiar looking to vanilla opentofu users. Looking over the explicit stacks seems like too much abstraction, too much work. You have one repo with all your modules (infrastructure-modules), then another for you stacks and units (infrastrucuture-catalogs). If you want to make an in module change you'd need 3 seperate PRs (infra-modules+catalogs+live). Doesn't seem that more advantageous then just having a doc that says hey if you need a new environment here's the units to deploy. The main upside I see is that the structure of each env is super locked in and controlled, easier to make exactly consistent except for a few vars like CIDR range. I've never worked somewhere where the envs were as consistent as people wanted them to be though 😬