Terraform Alternatives

Terraform is described as 'Tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. Terraform can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions' and is an app. There are more than 10 alternatives to Terraform for a variety of platforms, including Linux, Mac, Windows, SaaS and Web-based apps. The best Terraform alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Terraform are Pulumi, Stacktape, Cloudify and Multy Cloud.

Terraform alternatives are mainly Cloud Hosting Services but may also be Cloud Computing Services or Network Monitors. Filter by these if you want a narrower list of alternatives or looking for a specific functionality of Terraform.

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Ansible
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Freemium • Open Source
Windows
Linux
BSD
Python
53 Ansible alternatives
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.
- - Ansible is the most popular Windows & Linux alternative to Terraform.
- - Ansible is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Terraform.
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Ansible Features
1. No Coding RequiredAnsible can be used without an coding or programming skills.
SSH
Configuration Management
Configuration
Comments about Ansible as a Alternative to Terraform
Some users think Ansible is a great Terraform alternative, some don't.
cosaquee
It provides module for every major cloud provider(private and public).
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Guest
Terraform manages infrastructure/resources. Ansible is configuration management software.
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Guest
Different fundamental approach to orchestration (terraform) with declarative IaC and procedural configuration management (ansible) with targets that are complimentary.
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Guest
Terraform is outside of VMs. It handles Infrastructre as Code. Ansible is a configuration management software to control software installation, configuration, etc. inside a single machine
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Guest
Terraform defines resources/infrastructure which is at a different level as configuration management tools like ansible/puppet/salt/chef.
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Pulumi
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
12 Pulumi alternatives
Pulumi is a cloud development platform. Replace YAML and DSLs with pure code. Code, deploy, manage cloud apps to AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, using JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, Go.
- - Pulumi is the most popular Mac alternative to Terraform.
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Pulumi Features
Kubernetes
Multi-cloud management
Serverless
Support for Docker
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Comments about Pulumi as a Alternative to Terraform
Almost everyone thinks Pulumi is a great Terraform alternative.
jadoenm
Really like the remote state support they just added
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lizbu
Easy to use (supports Python, JavaScript, Go) and a great community
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clstokes
Enables Infrastructure as Code using real programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Go.
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Stacktape
Is this is a good alternative?
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Free Personal • Proprietary
Cloud Hosting Service
Mac
Windows
Linux
Amazon Web Services
Software as a Service (SaaS)
31 Stacktape alternatives
Full power of AWS with Heroku-like experience.
- - Stacktape is the most popular SaaS alternative to Terraform.
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Cloudify
Is this is a good alternative?
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Free • Open Source
Cloud Computing Service
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
51 Cloudify alternatives
Cloudify is an orchestration-first, model-driven cloud management platform native to Network function virtualization (NFV), that is open source and based on the TOSCA standard.
- - Cloudify is the most popular Web-based alternative to Terraform.
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Cloudify Features
Ruby
MongoDB
Nginx
Cloud based
Cloud Monitoring
Continuous Deployment
Multi-Tenant
Comments about Cloudify as a Alternative to Terraform
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Natishalom
Cloudify handles full lifecycle management of an application and comes with built-in integration with auto-scaling, workflow and multi-tenant portal
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Multy Cloud
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Free • Open Source
Cloud Computing Service
Self-Hosted
Software as a Service (SaaS)
12 Multy Cloud alternatives
Multy is an open-source tool that makes it easy to deploy the same infrastructure configuration on different clouds.
- - Multy Cloud is the most popular Self-Hosted alternative to Terraform.
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Multy Cloud Features
1. Cloud SyncSync your data (notes, documents, bookmarks, etc.) across your different devices and to the cloud.
2. Command line interfaceMulty Cloud either have CLI support or is a CLI-only app.
3. Container VirtualizationMulty Cloud can make use of isolated user spaces called "containers" to run applications.
4. Multiple Account supportMulty Cloud support multiple accounts without the need to logout and login
5. Privacy focusedMulty Cloud is considered a privacy friendly alternative.
6. DecentralizedMulty Cloud is based on a decentralized infrastructure with no single entity controlling it.
AWS CloudFormation
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Freemium • Proprietary
Software as a Service (SaaS)
Amazon Web Services
13 AWS CloudFormation alternatives
AWS CloudFormation gives developers and systems administrators an easy way to create and manage a collection of related AWS resources, provisioning and updating them in an orderly and predictable fashion.
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Comments about AWS CloudFormation as a Alternative to Terraform
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Guest
It does exactly the same, not just sort of like the others
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Foreman
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Free • Open Source
Network Monitor
Linux
Online
Self-Hosted
27 Foreman alternatives
Foreman is an open source project that helps system administrators manage servers throughout their lifecycle, from provisioning and configuration to orchestration and monitoring. Using Puppet or Chef and Foreman's smart proxy architecture, you can easily automate repetitive...
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Foreman Features
Hardware Monitoring
Configuration Management
Comments about Foreman as a Alternative to Terraform
pros, cons and recent comments
clstokes
Foreman is more focused on host/node management, where Terraform is focused on cloud resources such as VMs, Networks, etc. They're different problem sets.
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OpenTofu
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Linux
Windows
16 OpenTofu alternatives
OpenTofu is an OSS tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. OpenTofu can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.
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OpenTofu Features
Multi-cloud management
Landscape
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Paid • Proprietary
Linux
28 Landscape alternatives
Landscape is the systems management tool available with Ubuntu Advantage, Canonical’s service subscription programme. It allows you to manage thousands of Ubuntu machines as easily as one, making the administration of Ubuntu desktops, servers and cloud instances more...
- - Landscape is the most popular commercial alternative to Terraform.
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Landscape Features
Orchestration
System management
Altostra
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Freemium • Proprietary
Mac
Windows
Linux
Online
Software as a Service (SaaS)
4 Altostra alternatives
The Altostra extension makes it easy to build and deliver cloud applications directly from Visual Studio Code. It provides a drag-and-drop interface alongside the code that simplifies building cloud services to enable any developer the freedom to design and deploy locally.
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Altostra Features
1. Cloud SyncSync your data (notes, documents, bookmarks, etc.) across your different devices and to the cloud.
2. Multiple Account supportAltostra support multiple accounts without the need to logout and login
Cloud based
AWS Deploy
GruCloud
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Windows
Linux
6 GruCloud alternatives
GruCloud is a low/no-code infrastructure as a code tool. It can generate code from live infrastructure, and deploy resources to the cloud from code. Benefit from infrastructure as code without the hassle of manually authoring the infrastructure description.
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GruCloud Features
Kubernetes
Google Cloud
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SafeScale
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Free • Open Source
Mac
Linux
2 SafeScale alternatives
SafeScale offers an APIs and a CLI tools to deploy versatile computing clusters that span multiple Clouds. These APIs and CLIs are divided in 3 service layers:
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