terraform-ansible

Ansible

• agentless (Chef and Puppet have/need agents)
• configuration managment and infrastructure deployment for hybrid clouds
• Configuration managment within Ansible
• Ansible playbooks are written in YAML
• Ansible is not stateful -> dont keep track. Thefore, In every run, Ansible compare against the current state with the template.
• Ansible is Prodecural-playbook- and declarative modules -aws-
• OS agnostic -> because it offers a vast array of modules for every OS-level utility as well as cloud and on-prem infra vendors

Terraform

• Cloud agnostic -> work for every cloud -> multiprovider
• infrastructure provisioning
• Stateful -> keep track of state of infra deployment, local o remote state files.
• Type -> Declarative, HCL en JSON, vos pedis que queres, pero no pones como
• agentless, only need a host with a terraform binary on it
• Offers built in functions and conditionals
• Works for On-prem infra vendrois

AWS Cloudformation

• Only AWS resources. It can be very granular.
• Cloudformation uses JSON or YAML
• Stateful -> keep track, but users dont need to worry
• type -> Declarative, Json or YAML
• agentless, it lives in AWS cloud.
• Offers built in functions and cross organizations deployments

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