- Primary focus
- Repeatable automation for managed hosts
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Open source
- Pricing model
- open source
- API available
- Yes
- Windows desktop
- Not specified
- Mobile app
- Not specified
- Overview
- Ansible uses inventories and YAML playbooks to automate configuration and operational tasks.

| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Primary focus | Repeatable automation for managed hosts | Infrastructure-as-code tool for provisioning cloud resources declaratively |
| Deployment | Self-hosted | Self-hosted |
| Source model | Open source | Other license |
| Pricing model | open source | freemium |
| API available | Yes | Yes |
| Windows desktop | Not specified | Yes |
| Mobile app | Not specified | Not specified |
| Overview | Ansible uses inventories and YAML playbooks to automate configuration and operational tasks. | Terraform defines cloud and on-prem infrastructure as declarative configuration and applies changes through a plan/apply workflow. Since August 2023 it ships under HashiCorp's Business Source License rather than a fully open-source license. |
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- Primary focus
- Infrastructure-as-code tool for provisioning cloud resources declaratively
- Deployment
- Self-hosted
- Source model
- Other license
- Pricing model
- freemium
- API available
- Yes
- Windows desktop
- Yes
- Mobile app
- Not specified
- Overview
- Terraform defines cloud and on-prem infrastructure as declarative configuration and applies changes through a plan/apply workflow. Since August 2023 it ships under HashiCorp's Business Source License rather than a fully open-source license.
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