Comparison with Other Popular IaC Models
Understand the differences between major IaC tools including AWS CloudFormation, Terraform, Pulumi, and Ansible. Learn their use cases, advantages, and how they fit various cloud strategies, helping you choose the right automation tool for your infrastructure.
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As more and more companies start to switch to the cloud, they pay a lot of attention to avoiding vendor lock-in. We need to be aware of our company’s current and possible future direction before selecting a service to automate the infrastructure provisioning. If our company’s public cloud strategy is to use only AWS, then utilizing AWS CloudFormation to provision the infrastructure is a no-brainer because it's an AWS-managed service that uses templates written in JSON and YAML format to provision services. Let’s explore other alternate services and their use cases.
Terraform
Terraform is a cloud infrastructure automation tool provided by ...