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Infrastructure as Code

Terraform vs. Ansible: Which Is Best For You?

Spacelift sponsored this post. Derek Morgan Derek is a developer advocate at Spacelift. He has worked in many environments, ranging from an international managed-hosting provider handling “actual metal” to managed service providers to major training corporations.

The New Stack12 Sept 2022 · summary

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The summary

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

Editorial note: This is a summary of an article first published by The New Stack. The full piece is on their site.

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