Why choose Terraform over Chef or Puppet for managing infrastructure?
The question is about Terraform
Most of the time, Terraform is preferred over Chef or Puppet for maintaining the infrastructure with its Infrastructure as Code and cloud-agnostic approach. Chef and Puppet have much more to do with the installation and configuration of software, while Terraform was specifically designed for infrastructure provisioning. Its declarative syntax, HCL, enables users to define what they want in the end state, making the management of resources across multiple cloud providers easier and consistent by way of proper effective state management. With powerful multi-cloud support, a huge ecosystem of providers, and hundreds of community modules, Terraform is meant to create and scale infrastructure in diverse environments, whereas Chef and Puppet excel at ongoing configuration within existing infrastructure.
