Difference between Terraform and Ansible Provisioning (Terraform vs. Ansible)
Terraform | Ansible |
Terraform is a provisioning tool. | Ansible is a configuration management tool. |
It follows a declarative Infrastructure as a Code approach. | It follows a procedural approach. |
It is the best fit for orchestrating cloud services and setup cloud infrastructure from scratch. | It is mainly used for configuring servers with the right software and updates already configured resources. |
Terraform does not support bare metal provisioning by default. | Ansible supports the provisioning of bare metal servers. |
It does not provide better support in terms of packaging and templating. | It provides full support for packaging and templating. |
It highly depends on lifecycle or state management. |
It does not have lifecycle management at all. |