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Advantages of Terraform
December 15, 2016

Advantages of Terraform

SHASHIDHAR REDDY MALLEPALLY | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Terraform

Currently we are using terraform in our department. We are using to implement AWS stack creation with Terraform. It's easy to use compared to CFT. We are developing infrastructure with Terraform and currently deploying into AWS. In future if we want to use a different cloud it's easy to reuse this.
  • Easy to build cross cloud providers infrastructure
  • Reusable stack resources by using remote state
  • N/A
  • Reduced time spent on infrastructure creation.
  • Easy to maintain.
  • CFT
Terraform is easier for developing infrastructure and takes less time to create infrastructure. Main advantage is reusability.
Chef, Jenkins, Docker
It's well suited if you are targeting to multi-cloud deployment. Terraform manages state via a json file. This file serves as the source of truth about what the actual environment contains. However, the problem is the inability of Terraform to uniquely identify resources that it creates.