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Island 1 · IaC & Terraform · Port 1.3

Terraform vs Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi

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Ansible, CloudFormation, Pulumi, Terraform. Who does what?
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place Terraform among IaC tools: provisioning vs configuration, one cloud vs any API, HCL vs general languages

Recap

  1. 1Provisioning (create infra) vs configuration management (set up the inside)
  2. 2Terraform: any cloud, HCL · CloudFormation / Bicep: one cloud · Pulumi: real languages
  3. 3Ansible, Chef, Puppet configure machines. Teams use both together
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Which tool lets you write infrastructure code in Python or TypeScript?

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