Terraform vs. Ansible: Which Is Best For You?

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekm1215/ Organizations are moving toward multicloud infrastructure for better speed, security and reliability. It enables organizations to define the infrastructure in code.

Though it can be used for provisioning, Ansible shines in configuring existing infrastructure and automating everyday infrastructure tasks. Difference between Terraform and Ansible: Terraform and Ansible are capable of managing the infrastructure and critical tasks associated with it.

But when you have to pick only one for the operation, you must analyze the differences between Terraform and Ansible: Orchestration vs. configuration Declarative vs. procedural Mutable vs. immutable State management Cloud vs. on premises Orchestration vs. Configuration Management

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