Terraform is for building infrastructure, you know foundations, skyscrapers, streets. Build an empty restaurant with a giant yellow excavator (Terraform) Ansib

Terraform is for building infrastructure, you know foundations, skyscrapers, streets. Build an empty restaurant with a giant yellow excavator (Terraform) Ansible, Chef are for building configuration, you know menus, staff schedules, grocery lists. Ensure a restaurant is configured correctly to serve customers with its wait staff (Ansible) You can use an excavator to configure the stuff inside the restaurant. People do it. It's just not generally the most efficient way to do it. And you could have the wait staff at a restaurant pouring concrete for their second place a town over. You could do that too, but a lot of people would use the excavator. So what really makes these tools effective is when you start using them at scale. They start to become helpful once you realize how much you can do with how little, and they each have this same strength solving different levels, and their strengths become weaknesses at the other end.