Ansible and Terraform

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Terraform with AWS
AWS CloudFormation & Terra-form provides services to code and manage infrastructure resources through proper programming. But most of the modern enterprises have adopted Terra-form and integrated it with AWS to manage all their AWS resources. Terra-form can be used to manage AWS resources with a perfect programming approach. After that, certain steps need to be customized to create a CloudFormation registry resource type especially for Terra-form and further deploy it as an AWS Service Catalog product.


In the cloud and DevOps area, Ansible is also trending alongside Terraform. Ansible retail email list and Terraform are complementary tools that are often used together, so it's not an either-or decision.

For example, you use Terraform to create resources and services. Then you use Ansible to configure the resources created by Terraform. You first use Terraform to create a virtual machine in the AWS cloud. Then you use Ansible to install and configure the MySQL database.