Infrastructure as Codeopen-source
Terraform
Infrastructure as code tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely
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Scalability
very high
Performance
high
Learning Curve
moderate
Maturity
mature
Languages: Go, HCL
Architecture: declarative, provider-based, state-managed
When to Use
- +Multi-cloud infrastructure
- +Team collaboration
- +Compliance requirements
When Not to Use
- -Single cloud simple setup
- -Need programming language
Strengths
- Multi-cloud
- Large ecosystem
- State management
- Plan/apply workflow
- 40k+ stars
Weaknesses
- State complexity
- BSL license concerns
- HCL learning curve
Operations
Maintenance
medium
Monitoring
medium
Backup/Recovery
moderate
Hosting: self-hosted, cloud
Quick Facts
- Category
- Infrastructure as Code
- License
- open source
- Pricing
- freemium (free tier)
- Community
- very large
- Docs Quality
- excellent
- Trend
- stable
- Vendor Lock-in
- low
- Data Portability
- easy
Compliance
GDPR
HIPAA
SOC 2
PCI-DSS
Encryption
Audit Logs
RBAC
MFA
Best For
startupsmallmediumlargeenterprise
Use Cases
- Infrastructure provisioning
- Multi-cloud
- GitOps
- Compliance
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