CloudFormation/Terraform/etc are also configuration management programs. They just work on the APIs of cloud vendors, rather than a package management tool's co

CloudFormation/Terraform/etc are also configuration management programs. They just work on the APIs of cloud vendors, rather than a package management tool's command-line options. They've been given a new name because people want to believe they're not just re-inventing the wheel, or that operating on cloud resources makes their tool magically superior.