Likelihood to Recommend 8 because it's currently best-in-class and is completely essential to use in contrast to not expressing your infrastructure as code. That said, new contenders are nipping at its heels, and I expect stronger tools to emerge in the coming years. Hopefully the Terraform team is able to keep pace.
Read full review LaaS IaaS PaaS CRaaS Training DevOps DevSecOps Demo Portals TaaS Almost any workflow and any infrastructure are supported.
Read full review Pros Terraform is cloud agnostic. Just select the suitable provider for the cloud and it will do the job. Templating is possible to make the Terraform templates reusable. Variables can be created to make the templates generic so that it can be reused for different environments or resources. Read full review Self service single pane of glass for any workflow and infrastructure Complete lifecycle management of your workflow and infrastructure Vendor agnostic cloud, service, application, appliance support Read full review Cons The errors generated by the plan and preview commands are pretty cryptic, it can be hard for newcomers to the scripting language to understand how to address problems. Access controls around workspaces is limited which makes it harder to secure reduce the scope of teams ability. Analytics around user usage, applies and plans would be helpful for managemenet. Read full review Requires SME to get the full ROI first year Requires a culture change for Agile Automation Price could be less (not cheap) Read full review Usability I love Terraform and I think it has done some great things for people that are working to automate their provisioning processes and also for those that are in the process of moving to the cloud or managing cloud resources. There are some quirks to HCL that take a little bit of getting used to and give picking up Terraform a little bit of a learning curve, thus the rating
Read full review Performance Terraform's performance is quite amazing when it comes to deployment of resources in AWS. Of course, the deployment times depend on various parameters like the number of resources to deploy and different regions to deploy. Terraform cannot control that. The only minor drawback probably shows up when a terraform job is terminated mid way. Then in many cases, time-consuming manual cleanup is required.
Read full review Support Rating I have yet to have an opportunity to reach out directly to HashiCorp for support on Terraform. However, I have spent a great deal of time considering their documentation as I use the tool. This opinion is based solely on that. I find the Terraform documentation to have great breadth but lacking in depth in many areas. I appreciate that all of the tool's resources have an entry in the docs but often the examples are lacking. Often, the examples provided are very basic and prompt additional exploration. Also, the links in the documentation often link back to the same page where one might expect to be linked to a different source with additional information.
Read full review The tool can automate almost any workflow and infrastructure consumption. It has state of the art develop and support with great online training, online full manual set, and a comprehensive support team and network of SIs/VARS that are very qualified.
Read full review Alternatives Considered Terraform is the solid leader in the space. It allows you to do more then just provisioning within a pre-existing servers. It is more extensible and has more providers available than it competitors. It is also open source and more adopted by the community then some of the other solutions that are available in the market place.
Read full review VMware is too hard to use, too expensive to support, and not a full lifecycle tool for workflows and Infrastructure (no support of physical either). AWS or Azure or Google solutions are good if you are only in the cloud and only using their tools. Not good if you have on-prem or non-Cloud based tools/infrastructure. Build it yourself automation frameworks can be good for people with unlimited funds, but they are not the best way to go and missing many capabilities typically.
Read full review Return on Investment we are able to deploy our infrastructure in a couple of ours in an automated and repeatable way, before this could take weeks if the work was done manually and was a lot of error prone. having the state file, you can see a diff of what things have changed manually out side of Terraform which is a huge plus if state file gets corrupted, it is very hard to debug or restore it without an impact or spending hours .. writing big scale code can be very challenging and hard to be efficient so it's usable by the whole team Read full review Our customers have an average ROI of less than 6 months. Our customers renew their maintenance almost 100% of the time. It has allowed us to build specific solutions across many use cases enabling us to profit. Read full review ScreenShots HashiCorp Terraform Screenshots Quali CloudShell Screenshots