Terraform vs Ansible, Ansible vs Terraform - Google search is full of those queries, but are they true? Is there a war between those solutions and you can use only either-or? Or are they, in fact, a great combination and can or even should be used together?
In this article I would like to focus explicitly on Terraform, explain why should you consider using it and why, in my subjective opinion, is it better than other popular IaC tools like Chef, Puppet, Ansible, SaltStack and CloudFormation.
Managing servers and infrastructures manually is not a very complicated task, but when you start working with multiple servers, manual configuration is getting more complex and almost unachievable. This is where the notion of Infrastructure as a Code comes in.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is going to be big, we already know that. In the famous Internet of Things report, Gartner predicts billions of connected devices and trillions of dollars of economic value-add in the 2020s.
