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intro Terraform vs. Chef, Puppet, etc. vs-other-chef 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.

Terraform vs. Chef, Puppet, etc.

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.

Using provisioners, Terraform enables any configuration management tool to be used to setup a resource once it has been created. Terraform focuses on the higher-level abstraction of the datacenter and associated services, without sacrificing the ability to use configuration management tools to do what they do best. It also embraces the same codification that is responsible for the success of those tools, making entire infrastructure deployments easy and reliable.