From the course: DevOps Foundations: Infrastructure as Code

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Everything vs. Terraform

Everything vs. Terraform

- There are many ways to create your network infrastructure from code. - But there's only one right one, Terraform. - [Narrator] Everything versus Terraform. Fight. - Ah, come on Ernest. We know that there's never one silver bullet in tech. - Well, I'm not hunting werewolves, until this weekend at least. I'm building infrastructure and Terraform's the way to do it. It works across all the major cloud providers. - But what about the cloud provider specific solutions? Isn't AWS cloud formation optimized for AWS and Microsoft Arm templates optimized for Azure or at least they support all their new features? - So, not really. Besides those solutions being cloud provider specific, they're made by different teams inside those large organizations and they lag their own feature releases too. Since all cloud features are API driven a third party module can get put together as quickly as an in-house one in practice. There's…

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