Alternatives to Terraform
8 alternatives found
Terraform is an open-source Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool created by Mitchell Hashimoto at HashiCorp in 2014, headquartered in San Francisco, California. HashiCorp was acquired by IBM in 2024 for $6.4 billion.
Pulumi
Use Python, TypeScript, Go, or C# instead of HCL — same cloud coverage
Ansible
Better for configuration management and application deployment vs infrastructure provisioning
CloudFormation
Alternative to Terraform
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Alternative to Terraform
AWS CloudFormation
Native AWS IaC with no state management overhead — but AWS-only
OpenTofu
Open-source Terraform fork under Linux Foundation after HashiCorp license change
CDK
AWS Cloud Development Kit — define AWS infrastructure in TypeScript/Python
Crossplane
Kubernetes-native IaC for teams wanting infrastructure managed via kubectl
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