Terraform vs. Ansible vs. Puppet

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Terraform Landing Page
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Terraform

Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently.
Pricing:
- Open Source
Terraform is the service provisioner and infrastructure orchestrator in the suite of offerings by Hashicorp. Terraform is cloud-agnostic and supports a multitude of providers, giving you efficiency in managing your multi-cloud, multi-offering environment using the same configuration construct and language. It is written in the Hashicorp Language (HCL) and is very easy to get up and running quickly.

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Ansible Landing Page
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Ansible

Radically simple configuration-management, application deployment, task-execution, and multi-node orchestration engine
Pricing:
- Open Source
Ansible Galaxy provides its community with reusable plays to deploy configurations. Whether it is a MySQL server, or Windows IIS web service, it cuts down on the development to deployment time. It also has a Google Group full of information. Ansible was purchased by RedHat in 2016 and received a lot of “enterprising” in their Tower offering.

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Puppet Enterprise Landing Page

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Puppet Enterprise

Get started with Puppet Enterprise, or upgrade or expand.

Puppet Forge is a vast repo of modules to do everything from configuring logrotate.d to installing MongoDB, to hardening an Ubuntu server with CIS benchmarks. Puppet’s User Groups, Slack, and IRC are deep and developed, and this is a good landing page for their community content.

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Chef Landing Page

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Chef

Automation for all of your technology. Overcome the complexity and rapidly ship your infrastructure and apps anywhere with automation.

It’s the outlier in so much as Puppet, (as well as Chef, and Salt) are written using the same tropes (classes, modules, etc.) as software. A developer is going to favor this less than their ops brethren.

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