AWS

At the 14th Ansible Meetup in Zurich, I gave a talk on integrating Ansible and Terraform. The session focused on the challenges of provisioning infrastructure, the strengths of each tool, and how to effectively make them work together. The Core Challenge While Ansible is a powerful configuration managment solution, using it for pure cloud infrastructure provisioning comes with hurdles. It lacks resource dependencies, doesn’t maintain an infrastructure state, and its declarative nature means running a “check mode” on infrastructure that doesn’t exist yet will simply fail. (There is an upcoming talk about a terraform plan implementation for Ansible - stay tuned) ...