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These are not competing tools - they are complementary. Terraform would (immutably, declaratively) build your infrastructure (as in provisioning resources). I'd
by avip 9y ago
These are not competing tools - they are complementary. Terraform would (immutably, declaratively) build your infrastructure (as in provisioning resources). I'd use terraform if your inf. is terraform-friendly. I'd likely skip if your cloud provider is not aws.
- albertlie 9y agoHey avip, Thanks for your answer! Could you elaborate what you mean by Terraform friendly?
- bproven 9y agoprobably means if TF has a provider for your infra (vmware, aws, azure, etc). Check the hashicorp website docs and see how well supported the provider is for your infra of choice https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/ https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/
- albertlie 9y agoGot it. Thanks!
- akulbe 9y agoWith all due respect, this doesn't seem like the best advice. Part of the appeal of Hashicorp tools (terraform, and also vagrant and others) is that they are platform-agnostic. The tagline even says "ONE SAFE WORKFLOW ACROSS PROVIDERS". Check out terraform.io to see what they say. I wouldn't limit it to AWS, and AWS isn't even always the best option. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯