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HashiCorp Consul vs. HashiCorp Terraform

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Consul

    Score9.6 out of 10
    N/AHashiCorp Consul is a tool for discovering and configuring services in the IT infrastructure. It provides service discovery, health checking, key/value stores and support for multiple data centers out of the box.

    $0

    always free

    HashiCorp Terraform

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/ATerraform 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.

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    Pricing
    ConsulHashiCorp Terraform
    Editions & Modules
    Open Source (self-managed)
    $0
    always free
    HCP Consul (Cloud)
    $0.027/hr
    Per Hour
    Enterprise
    Self-Managed Custom Deployments
    Open Source
    $0
    Team & Governance
    $20/user
    per user/per month
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    ConsulHashiCorp Terraform
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    YesNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeOptionalNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    ConsulHashiCorp Terraform
    Considered Both Products
    HashiCorp
    Chose Consul
    We used to use Microsoft SQL Server for configuration management of our services.
    Unfortunately that was a pain because of:
    • Developers did not know how to persist objects effectively in MS SQL Server
    Incentivized
    HashiCorp
    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 …
    Incentivized
    Chose HashiCorp Terraform
    Terraform has made better choices in how their product works, is used over time, and can be integrated with.
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    ConsulHashiCorp Terraform
    Configuration Management
    Comparison of Configuration Management features of HashiCorp Consul and HashiCorp Terraform
    Feature
    HashiCorp Consul
    -
    Ratings
    HashiCorp Terraform
    7.9
    5 Ratings
    Infrastructure Automation00 Ratings9.05 Ratings
    Automated Provisioning00 Ratings8.75 Ratings
    Parallel Execution00 Ratings6.34 Ratings
    Node Management00 Ratings7.73 Ratings
    Reporting & Logging00 Ratings7.74 Ratings
    Version Control00 Ratings8.15 Ratings
    User Ratings
    ConsulHashiCorp Terraform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    8.4
    (30 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    8.1
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (2 ratings)
    7.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (3 ratings)