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, Web-based and SaaS apps. The best Terraform alternative is Ansible, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like Terraform are Pulumi, OpenTofu, Foreman and Stacktape.

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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

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Pay once)
    • Open Source (GPL-3.0)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • BSD
    • Python
    Architecture
     
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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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    • Some users think Ansible is a great Terraform alternative, some don't.

    • Ansible is the most popular Windows, Mac & Linux alternative to Terraform.

    • Ansible is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to Terraform.

    • 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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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 icon

    • Almost everyone thinks Pulumi is a great Terraform alternative.

    • 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.

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Windows
    OpenTofu screenshot 1
     
  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

    Cost / License

    Platforms

    • 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.

    Terraform Icon
    Foreman icon

    • Some users think Foreman is a great Terraform alternative, some don't.

    • Foreman is the most popular Web-based & Self-Hosted alternative to Terraform.

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

     4 likes

    Stacktape is a tool that simplifies AWS for developers, enabling quick deployment of production-grade infrastructure. It transforms complex tasks into more manageable processes. Developers can now use an interactive config editor instead of manually writing YAML files, allowing...

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Amazon Web Services
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    Stacktape screenshot 1
     

    • Stacktape is the most popular SaaS alternative to Terraform.

    • Stacktape is Free Personal and ProprietaryTerraform is Free and Proprietary
  7. AWS CloudFormation icon

    AWS CloudFormation

     1 like

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Amazon Web Services
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    Comments about AWS CloudFormation as an Alternative to Terraform
    Guest
    Positive
    1

    It does exactly the same, not just sort of like the others

    Review by a new / low-activity user.
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    AWS CloudFormation icon
    • AWS CloudFormation is Freemium and ProprietaryTerraform is Free and Proprietary
  9. 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

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • 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.

    Cost / License

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Self-Hosted
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  11. Landscape icon

    Landscape

     2 likes

    Landscape automates security patching, auditing, access management and compliance tasks across your Ubuntu estate. Use it in well-connected or airgapped environments: at sea, in space and everywhere in between. Landscape is available with an Ubuntu Pro subscription.

    34 Landscape alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free Personal
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
    • Online
    • Ubuntu
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  12. GruCloud icon

    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
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    Altostra

     3 likes

    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.

    Cost / License

    • Freemium (Subscription)
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Online
    • Software as a Service (SaaS)
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  14. SafeScale

     Like

    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

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
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