{"id":22303,"date":"2014-07-30T10:57:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-30T08:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=22303"},"modified":"2014-07-30T10:57:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-30T08:57:38","slug":"terraform-infrastructure-automation-and-management-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2014\/07\/30\/terraform-infrastructure-automation-and-management-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"Terraform – infrastructure automation and management tool"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Terraform<\/a> – infrastructure automation and management tool. \u00a0It complements\u00a0configuration management tools like Puppet and Chef, as well as infrastructure building tools like CloudFormation. \u00a0The beauty of it is that it is tool and cloud agnostic. \u00a0You can use it to build and maintain infrastructure across multiple clouds.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

Terraform – infrastructure automation and management tool. \u00a0It complements\u00a0configuration management tools like Puppet and Chef, as well as infrastructure building tools like CloudFormation. \u00a0The beauty of it is that it is tool and cloud agnostic. \u00a0You can use it to build and maintain infrastructure across multiple clouds.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,6,133,62,1334],"tags":[3270,2366,2829],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-22303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-general","category-linux","category-sysadmin","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-amazon-aws","tag-cloud-computing","tag-cloudflare","post_format-post-format-link"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27513,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/04\/10\/why-configuration-management-and-provisioning-are-different\/","url_meta":{"origin":22303,"position":0},"title":"Why Configuration Management and Provisioning are Different","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"April 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"In \"Why Configuration Management and Provisioning are Different\"\u00a0Carlos Nu\u00f1ez advocates for the use of specialized infrastructure provisioning tools, like Terraform, Heat, and\u00a0CloudFormation, instead of relying on the configuration management tools, like Ansible or Puppet. 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