Infrastructure · Flashcard
What is Terraform?
- AAn infrastructure as code tool that provisions and manages resources through declarative configuration
- BA configuration management tool that installs and updates software on existing running servers
- CA container orchestration platform that schedules and scales workloads across a cluster of nodes
- DA continuous integration service that builds, tests, and deploys application code on each commit
Why this is the answer
Terraform is an IaC tool that implements the practice — you declare desired state and it provisions it. It is not a configuration-management tool like Ansible, which focuses on configuring existing servers.
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