Open Source Terraform Alternatives

The best open source alternative to Terraform is Ansible. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 10 alternatives to Terraform and ten of them is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Terraform are Pulumi, OpenTofu, Foreman and Cloudify.

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  1. Ansible icon

    Ansible

     95 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.

    56 Ansible alternatives

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    Comments about Ansible as an Alternative to Terraform
    Top Positive Comment
    cosaquee
    3

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

    Top Negative Comment
    Guest
    6

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

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    Guest
    Negative
    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.
    3 of 5 comments
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    • Ansible is Freemium and Open SourceTerraform is Free and Proprietary
  2. Pulumi icon

    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.

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    Comments about Pulumi as an Alternative to Terraform
    jadoenm
    Positive
    1

    Really like the remote state support they just added

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    lizbu
    Positive
    1

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

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
    clstokes
    Positive
    1

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

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    • Pulumi is Free and Open SourceTerraform is Free and Proprietary
  4. OpenTofu icon

    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.

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    • Mac
    • Linux
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  5. Foreman icon

    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...

    25 Foreman alternatives

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    • Linux
    • Online
    • Self-Hosted
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    Comments about Foreman as an Alternative to Terraform
    clstokes
    Negative
    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.

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    • Foreman is Free and Open SourceTerraform is Free and Proprietary
  6. Cloudify icon

    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.

    58 Cloudify alternatives

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    • Free
    • Open Source

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    • Mac
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    • Online
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    Comments about Cloudify as an Alternative to Terraform
    Natishalom
    Positive
    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.
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    • 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.

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    • 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.

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  10. 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:

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    • Mac
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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)

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    • Mac
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  12. Gyro Tool icon

    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.

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    • Mac
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