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Alternatives to Terraform

8 alternatives found

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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.

About Terraform
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Pulumi

Use Python, TypeScript, Go, or C# instead of HCL — same cloud coverage

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Ansible

Better for configuration management and application deployment vs infrastructure provisioning

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CloudFormation

Alternative to Terraform

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Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Alternative to Terraform

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AWS CloudFormation

Native AWS IaC with no state management overhead — but AWS-only

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OpenTofu

Open-source Terraform fork under Linux Foundation after HashiCorp license change

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CDK

AWS Cloud Development Kit — define AWS infrastructure in TypeScript/Python

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Crossplane

Kubernetes-native IaC for teams wanting infrastructure managed via kubectl

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