Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
Originally submitted 1/15/2022
"Good tool for provisioning cloud infrastructure and managing infrastructure as code"
5/5
What do you like best about IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform)?

One thing I appreciate about Terraform is how well it fits into our infrastructure automation and CI/CD workflows. I particularly like the ability to create reusable modules, which makes it easier to maintain consistent infrastructure configurations across different environments. The declarative approach makes infrastructure changes predictable and easier to review through version control. I also find the plan and apply workflow very useful for identifying potential changes before they are deployed. Overall, Terraform makes managing AWS resources, handling infrastructure changes, and scaling environments much more organized and efficient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform)?

One area where Terraform could improve is developer experience, particularly around testing and validating infrastructure changes before deployment. Sometimes a Terraform plan succeeds, but the actual resource creation fails due to provider-specific constraints or configuration issues. Better pre-deployment validation could help catch these problems earlier.

Refactoring is another area that could be easier. Renaming resources, restructuring modules, or moving resources between modules can be challenging and sometimes requires additional state management using moved blocks. More intuitive refactoring support would make maintaining large Terraform codebases much easier.

It would also be helpful to have better debugging capabilities, clearer error messages, and more comprehensive testing support so developers can identify configuration issues before applying changes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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