Ask HN: Ansible vs. Terraform

Re:Ask HN: Ansible vs. Terraform by avip on Tuesday March 13, 2018 @11:39AM (#16577018)

These are not competing tools - they are complementary. Terraform would (immutably, declaratively) build your infrastructure (as in provisioning resources). I'd use terraform if your inf. is terraform-friendly. I'd likely skip if your cloud provider is not aws.

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Re:Ask HN: Ansible vs. Terraform by akulbe on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @01:34PM (#16586592)

With all due respect, this doesn't seem like the best advice.

Part of the appeal of Hashicorp tools (terraform, and also vagrant and others) is that they are platform-agnostic.

The tagline even says "ONE SAFE WORKFLOW ACROSS PROVIDERS".

Check out terraform.io to see what they say.

I wouldn't limit it to AWS, and AWS isn't even always the best option. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Ask HN: Ansible vs. Terraform by albertlie on Wednesday March 14, 2018 @06:36AM (#16583684)

Hey avip, Thanks for your answer!

Could you elaborate what you mean by Terraform friendly?

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Re:Ask HN: Ansible vs. Terraform by bproven on Thursday March 15, 2018 @08:33PM (#16597716)

probably means if TF has a provider for your infra (vmware, aws, azure, etc). Check the hashicorp website docs and see how well supported the provider is for your infra of choice

https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/

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Re:Ask HN: Ansible vs. Terraform by albertlie on Friday March 16, 2018 @01:44AM (#16598880)

Got it. Thanks!

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