HashiCorp Terraform

HashiCorp Terraform

HashiCorp Terraform

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
HashiCorp Terraform	Score 8.5 out of 10	N/A	Terraform from HashiCorp is a cloud infrastructure automation tool that enables users to create, change, and improve production infrastructure, and it allows infrastructure to be expressed as code. It codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned. It is available Open Source, and via Cloud and Self-Hosted editions.	$0

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HashiCorp Terraform

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Open Source: $0
Team & Governance: $20/user
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HashiCorp Terraform
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Free/Freemium Version
Yes
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No setup fee

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Community Pulse
	HashiCorp Terraform
Considered Both Products	HashiCorp Terraform Eric Mintz CEO Chose HashiCorp Terraform I'm beginning to look at Pulumi. In my opinion, it looks like it would be a good replacement for HashiCorp Terraform, and it has the advantage of configuration via scripting, rather than via HCL, which is HashiCorp Terraform configuration markup language. In my opinion, the … Helpful? Verified User Manager Chose HashiCorp Terraform We have used Vagrant to develop our application in a virtual box environment and prepare it to be packed with Packer. The image created from these two tools will be deployed by Terraform. We are using Consul for service discovery and as a job locking so we don't have two jobs or … Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose HashiCorp Terraform CloudFormation is only for AWS so if you're trying to deploy to another cloud provider then Terraform is your product. Terraform has lots of public support so you can find answers to questions by Googling. CloudFormation is easy to view the resources/services that are … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose HashiCorp Terraform AWS CloudFormation is better if you just want to stick with AWS because it's integration with AWS is better, provides auto-rollback in case of failures, and has GUI to manage and view the stacks built. Terraform is better when we want to stay cloud-agnostic. Terraform is better … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose HashiCorp Terraform Terraform was more preferred over Ansible as it is considerably more intutive. Helpful? Guillermo Buritica Tobon Consultant - Site Reliability Engineering Manager (SRE) - Managed Services Chose HashiCorp Terraform Actually both products work very well. We use Terraform for speed and Ansible for configuration management both products work really well together Incentivized Helpful? KM Kulbhushan Mayer Senior Solution Architect Chose HashiCorp Terraform SIngle tools for both tools, no need to remember two different syntaxes. Incentivized Helpful? Jude Allred Co-Founder & CTA Chose HashiCorp Terraform Terraform is a large step ahead of the previous generation of infrastructure-as-code providers. I'd never go back to, e.g. Puppet or Chef, Ansible, etc. That said I think that Pulumi has a good chance of displaying it, in no small part because the Terraform language itself … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Jenkins Senior Systems Reliability Engineer Chose HashiCorp Terraform I can't find these applications listed, but other IaC tools I have used include: AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager Templates, and GCP Cloud Deployment Templates. For a comparable tool, I have the most experience with CloudFormation. Compared to CloudFormation, the first … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose HashiCorp Terraform Chef and Terraform are not apples to apples because Chef is more focused on config management, whereas Terraform is more focused on provisioning. However, I can say that where they do overlap in configuration management is that Terraform is the preferred tool because it has an … Incentivized Helpful? Jeffrey Severance Senior Solutions Engineer Chose HashiCorp Terraform 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Dhruba Jyoti Nag Associate Chose HashiCorp Terraform Terraform is open source and has strong community support. It is cloud-agnostic versus competing products like AWS cloud formation, hence has a distinct advantage. The scripts once set up are easy for developers to administer during development, hence during production … Incentivized Helpful? Murugan Mani Developer/DevOps Engineer at Target Technology Services Chose HashiCorp Terraform UI design and development always sticks when it comes to multiple or say 'n' number of same configurations. It's very easy to download and execute Provides cross platform support and it's reliable. Incentivized Helpful? Aiman Najjar DevOps Engineer Chose HashiCorp Terraform - Terraform syntax is much easier to read and learn than Cloud Formation. - Terraform already supports AWS as well as several other cloud providers. - Terraform is backed by a great and supportive open-source community. Incentivized Helpful? Kyle Rockman Software Engineer Chose HashiCorp Terraform Terraform has made better choices in how their product works, is used over time, and can be integrated with. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Team Lead Chose HashiCorp Terraform Centralized and standard configuration. Ease of VM provisioning. Incentivized Helpful? Deepshikha Gandhi DevOps Engineer Chose HashiCorp Terraform Terraform shares the methodology of creating configuration files for your infrastructure with tools like CloudFormation. However, Terraform is cloud-agnostic unlike CloudFormation which is AWS specific. Terraform can be used to maintain AWS and OpenStack clusters … Incentivized Helpful? Charles Anderson VP Engineering Chose HashiCorp Terraform CloudFormation is the lingua franca of AWS. You certainly can't go wrong using it, but I like the syntax and open-source nature of Terraform. That's mostly a personal preference. I have not tried any other non-Amazon tools for provisioning AWS. And, of course, the AWS tools … Incentivized Helpful? SM SHASHIDHAR REDDY MALLEPALLY Senior Software Engineer Chose HashiCorp Terraform Terraform is easier for developing infrastructure and takes less time to create infrastructure. Main advantage is reusability. Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Cloud providers Pro Open source Pro Infrastructure as code
Top Cons	Minus Learning curve Minus Version control Minus Major upgrades

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User Ratings
	HashiCorp Terraform
Likelihood to Recommend	6.4 (25 ratings)
Usability	8.0 (1 ratings)
Performance	9.4 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	7.4 (5 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.2 (3 ratings)

User Testimonials
	HashiCorp Terraform
Likelihood to Recommend	HashiCorp 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. Incentivized Jude Allred Co-Founder & CTA Read full review
Pros	HashiCorp 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. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Cons	HashiCorp 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. Incentivized Ben Carter Vice President Enterprise Architecture Read full review
Usability	HashiCorp 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 Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Performance	HashiCorp 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. Incentivized Dhruba Jyoti Nag Associate Read full review
Support Rating	HashiCorp 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. Incentivized Michael Jenkins Senior Systems Reliability Engineer Read full review
Alternatives Considered	HashiCorp 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. Incentivized Jeffrey Severance Senior Solutions Engineer Read full review
Return on Investment	HashiCorp 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 Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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