Hashicorp Terraform Reviews & Product Details

Provider agnostic, HCL, simple to learn basics Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Missing support for a lot of useful features like nested loops Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is great at what it does. Easily pluggable to existing workflows. The configurations have a learning curve but worth it. It is a polished product even when it has not been around for so long yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It handles provisioning well but not good for configuration management and you need to implement something like ansible, chef in conjunction. They already have decent provisioning support so it becomes a bit difficult to pitch it to management to go for it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is a lot of modules that can handle almost everything. Also, it is really simple to learn. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some feature are missing (ex. : read env variables) and it can feel a little bit `hacky` (ex. : trying to do a `else if` equivalent). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Mature-ish, large user base, easy to use, syntax good enough (e.g. not as verbose as Cloudformation), helpful-ish error messages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

No easy roll-backs, not as good support as aws for other cloud providers, terraform state need to be dealt with extreme care as a corrupted state is a big hassle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cross-platform support for AWS, GPC. Being able to achieve blue green deployment for achieve zero downtime. Works for all cloud resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The learning curve is a bit deep, and you need to learn Go language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

"Infrastructure" as code is a brilliant description of what Hashicorp have done with Terraform. The HCL syntax is incredibly easy to use, along with their intuitive and powerful CLI tool Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

As long as Terraform is implemented correctly, there isn't much to dislike. There isn't great support for Terraform in a few CI tools, unfortunately. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.