Configuration management tools install and manage software on a machine that already exists. Terraform is not a configuration management tool, and it allows existing tooling to focus on their strengths: bootstrapping and initializing resources.
An overview of how Terraform is different from configuration management tools.
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# Terraform vs. Chef, Puppet, etc.
@ -22,4 +22,3 @@ If you are using traditional configuration management within your compute
instances, you can use Terraform to configure bootstrapping software like
cloud-init to activate your configuration management software on first
Laura Pacilio
5 years ago