Question

What are the reasons for choosing Terraform for DevOps?

Answer 1

Below are the reasons for choosing Terraform for DevOps:

• It can do complete orchestration and not just configuration management (like Ansible and Puppet).
• Has amazing support of almost all the popular cloud providers like AWS, Azure, GCP, DigitalOcean etc.
• Easily manages the configuration of an immutable (dynamic) infrastructure.
• Provide immutable infrastructure where configuration changes smoothly.
• Works on HCL (HashiCorp configuration language), which is very easy to learn and understand.
• Easily portable from one provider to another.