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GitHub

1,099 Reviews and Ratings

HashiCorp Terraform

138 Reviews and Ratings

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    Overview
    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    GitHub

    Score9 out of 10
    		N/AGitHub is a platform that hosts public and private code and provides software development and collaboration tools. Features include version control, issue tracking, code review, team management, syntax highlighting, etc. Personal plans ($0-50), Organizational plans ($0-200), and Enterprise plans are available.

    $4

    per month per user

    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.

    $0

    Pricing
    GitHubHashiCorp Terraform
    Editions & Modules
    Team
    $40
    per year per user
    Enterprise
    $210
    per year per user
    Open Source
    $0
    Team & Governance
    $20/user
    per user/per month
    Enterprise
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    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    GitHubHashiCorp Terraform
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    GitHubHashiCorp Terraform
    Considered Both Products
    GitHub
    Verified User
    Chose GitHub
    GitHub comes handy in terms of usage and capabilities, it is easy to use and quite a user friendly tools when it comes to user experience, with limited UI/UX and it has vast exposure when it comes to third party integration and being quite mature and yet evolving and popular …
    Incentivized
    Garett Dunn
    System Engineer in Information Technology at Synchronoss Technologies (Information Technology and Services, 10,001+ employees)
    Chose GitHub
    Gitlab has many more features (and many more for free). However, it is less mature and a little less stable than GitHub.

    Bitbucket is very good for enterprises, as that its main focus. It also ties in well with the other Atlassian products (Jira, Bamboo, etc.). However, Bitbucket…
    Incentivized
    Charles Anderson
    VP Engineering in Engineering at EveryoneSocial (Computer Software, 11-50 employees)
    Chose GitHub
    The most direct competitor to GitHub that I can think of would be BitBucket from Atlassian. The biggest advantage that I know of for BitBucket would be that they support both git and Mercurial. If you have at least one team or project using Mercurial, then BitBucket would be …
    Incentivized
    HashiCorp
    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
    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
    Verified User
    Chose HashiCorp Terraform
    HashiCorp Terraform has more possibilities
    Incentivized
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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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
    GitHubHashiCorp Terraform
    Version Control Software Features
    Comparison of Version Control Software Features features of GitHub and HashiCorp Terraform
    Feature
    GitHub
    7.9
    2 Ratings
    HashiCorp Terraform
    -
    Ratings
    Branching and Merging9.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version History8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Version Control Collaboration Tools7.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Pull Requests9.72 Ratings00 Ratings
    Code Review Tools7.82 Ratings00 Ratings
    Project Access Control8.22 Ratings00 Ratings
    Automated Testing Integration7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Issue Tracking Integration4.12 Ratings00 Ratings
    Branch Protection9.42 Ratings00 Ratings
    Configuration Management
    Comparison of Configuration Management features of GitHub and HashiCorp Terraform
    Feature
    GitHub
    -
    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
    GitHubHashiCorp Terraform
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (123 ratings)
    8.4
    (30 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    8.2
    (5 ratings)
    Performance
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.4
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.8
    (26 ratings)
    7.4
    (5 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    -
    (0 ratings)
    9.2
    (3 ratings)