Open Source Terraform Alternatives

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   Ansible

    99 likes

   Ansible is a radically simple IT automation engine that automates cloud provisioning, configuration management, application deployment, intra-service orchestration, and many other IT needs.

   54 Ansible alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Freemium
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Application type

   • Server Management

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • BSD
   • Python

   

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   Top Positive Comment

   cosaquee

   Mar 12, 2018

   3

   It provides module for every major cloud provider(private and public).

   Top Negative Comment

   Guest

   Jan 24, 2020

   6

   Terraform manages infrastructure/resources. Ansible is configuration management software.

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   Guest

   Negative comment•Jun 6, 2019

   3

   Different fundamental approach to orchestration (terraform) with declarative IaC and procedural configuration management (ansible) with targets that are complimentary.

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

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   • Ansible is Freemium and Open SourceTerraform is Free and Proprietary
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   Pulumi

    12 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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   jadoenm

   Positive comment•Jun 26, 2019

   1

   Really like the remote state support they just added

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   lizbu

   Positive comment•Jun 21, 2019

   1

   Easy to use (supports Python, JavaScript, Go) and a great community

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   clstokes

   Positive comment•Jun 24, 2019

   1

   Enables Infrastructure as Code using real programming languages such as Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, and Go.

   

   

   • Pulumi is Free and Open SourceTerraform is Free and Proprietary
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   OpenTofu

    6 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (MPL-2.0)

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Linux
   • Windows

   

   

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   Foreman

    11 likes

   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...

   27 Foreman alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Online
   • Self-Hosted

   

   

   

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   clstokes

   Negative comment•Jun 24, 2019

   2

   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.

   

   

   • Foreman is Free and Open SourceTerraform is Free and Proprietary
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   Cloudify

    31 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux
   • Online

   

   

   

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   Natishalom

   Positive comment•Jul 30, 2017

   0

   Cloudify handles full lifecycle management of an application and comes with built-in integration with auto-scaling, workflow and multi-tenant portal

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • Cloudify is Free and Open SourceTerraform is Free and Proprietary
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   Multy Cloud

    4 likes

   Multy is an open-source tool that makes it easy to deploy the same infrastructure configuration on different clouds.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

   Application type

   • Cloud Hosting

   Platforms

   • Self-Hosted
   • Software as a Service (SaaS)

   

   

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   GruCloud

    2 likes

   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.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

   Platforms

   • Mac
   • Windows
   • Linux

   

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    SafeScale

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    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:

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Application type

    • Cloud Computing

    Origin

    • France
    • EU

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    

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    Yoke

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    The Yoke Project is a set of tools for working with package management differently than the status quo. Where once only YAML and templates of YAML ruled the representation of Kubernetes resources and the packages thereof, we can now work with code and benefit from native control...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows

    

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    Gyro Tool

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    Gyro is an open source command-line tool for creating, updating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure. Gyro makes infrastructure-as-code possible. Gyro is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (Apache-2.0)

    Origin

    • United States

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux

    

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