HashiCorp Terraform

HashiCorp Terraform

138 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
HashiCorp Terraform	Score8.5 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

Open Source: $0
Team & Governance: $20/user
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HashiCorp Terraform
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	HashiCorp Terraform
Considered Both Products	HashiCorp Callum O'Connor Senior Analytics Engineer in Corporate at Adaptavist (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) Chose HashiCorp Terraform dbt was fine, but you end up with an extremely bloated repo/project. Often where all of the models are the same, named similarly, and generally just doesn't adhere to the concept of DRY coding. In Terraform we're able to template a lot of this work and dynamically generate … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose HashiCorp Terraform HashiCorp Terraform is much better than Cloud Formation. For one, the language is just easier to use, but more importantly, the provider ecosystem is much better in HashiCorp Terraform than in Cloud Formation. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose HashiCorp Terraform HashiCorp Terraform has Cloud agnostic capability to use with different cloud vendors and the ease of creating the code with minimal effort. Incentivized Helpful? Eric Mintz CEO in Professional Services at EM Squared (Computer Software, 1-10 employees) 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 … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User 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 Helpful? Verified User 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 Chose HashiCorp Terraform Terraform was more preferred over Ansible as it is considerably more intutive. Incentivized Helpful? Guillermo Buritica Tobon Consultant - Site Reliability Engineering Manager (SRE) - Managed Services in Professional Services at Servian (Computer & Network Security, 501-1000 employees) 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? Kulbhushan Mayer Senior Solution Architect in Engineering at Thinknyx Technologies LLP (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) Chose HashiCorp Terraform SIngle tools for both tools, no need to remember two different syntaxes. Incentivized Helpful? Jude Allred Co-Founder & CTA in Information Technology at HASH (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) 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? Verified User 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? Michael Jenkins Senior Systems Reliability Engineer in Corporate at The Walt Disney Company (Entertainment, 10,001+ employees) 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 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 in Information Technology at Erie Insurance Group (Insurance, 5001-10,000 employees) 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 in Information Technology at Cognizant (Entertainment, 10,001+ employees) 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 in Information Technology at Tata Consultancy Services (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees) 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? Kyle Rockman Software Engineer in Information Technology at Under Armour (Sporting Goods, 10,001+ employees) 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 Chose HashiCorp Terraform Centralized and standard configuration. Ease of VM provisioning. Incentivized Helpful? Aiman Najjar DevOps Engineer in Information Technology at HurraNet (Computer Software, 501-1000 employees) 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? Deepshikha Gandhi DevOps Engineer in Engineering at Magnetic (Computer Software, 201-500 employees) 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 in Engineering at EveryoneSocial (Computer Software, 11-50 employees) 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? SHASHIDHAR REDDY MALLEPALLY Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Capital One (Financial Services, 10,001+ employees) Chose HashiCorp Terraform Terraform is easier for developing infrastructure and takes less time to create infrastructure. Main advantage is reusability. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose HashiCorp Terraform HashiCorp Terraform has more possibilities Incentivized Helpful?
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Features

HashiCorp Terraform

Comparison of Configuration Management features of HashiCorp Terraform
Feature	HashiCorp Terraform 7.9 5 Ratings
Infrastructure Automation	9.05 Ratings
Automated Provisioning	8.75 Ratings
Parallel Execution	6.34 Ratings
Node Management	7.73 Ratings
Reporting & Logging	7.74 Ratings
Version Control	8.15 Ratings

User Ratings
	HashiCorp Terraform
Likelihood to Recommend	8.4 (30 ratings)
Usability	8.2 (5 ratings)
Performance	9.4 (3 ratings)
Support Rating	7.4 (5 ratings)
Ease of integration	9.2 (3 ratings)