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layout: "intro"
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page_title: "Terraform vs. Chef, Puppet, etc."
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sidebar_current: "vs-other-chef"
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# Terraform vs. Chef, Puppet, etc.
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Configuration management tools install and manage tools on a machine
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that already exists. Terraform is not a configuration management tool,
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and uses the existing tooling to do what they do best: bootstrap and initialize resources.
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Using provisioners, Terraform allows any configuration management tool
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to be used to setup a resource once it has been created. Terraform
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focuses on the higher-level abstraction of the datacenter and associated
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services, without sacrificing the ability to use configuration management
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tools to do what they do best. It also embraces the same codification that
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is responsible for the success of those tools, making entire infrastructure
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deployments just as easy and reliable.
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