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page_title: Terraform vs. Alternatives
description: An overview of how Terraform compares to alternative software and tools.
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---
# Terraform vs. Alternatives
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Terraform provides a flexible abstraction of resources and providers. This model
allows for representing everything from physical hardware, virtual machines, and
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containers, to email and DNS providers. Because of this flexibility, Terraform
can be used to solve many different problems. This means there are a number of
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existing tools that overlap with the capabilities of Terraform. We compare Terraform
to a number of these tools, but it should be noted that Terraform is not mutually
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exclusive with other systems. It can be used to manage a single application, or the
entire datacenter.
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Learn how Terraform compares to:
- [Chef, Puppet, etc.](/intro/vs/chef-puppet)
- [CloudFormation, Heat, etc.](/intro/vs/cloudformation)
- [Boto, Fog, etc.](/intro/vs/boto)
- [Custom Solutions](/intro/vs/custom)