The OSS IaC Tooling Face-off for Modern Cloud Native Ops
summary
Compares concrete tradeoffs between tools: Terraform dependency graph and provider ecosystem vs CloudFormation’s AWS-only, no-state model; Pulumi runs in Python/TypeScript with encrypted state and full programming logic; OpenTofu is a community fork offering a drop-in replacement and OpenTofu native state encryption after Terraform’s license change; Ansible is agentless SSH with no state, Salt is agent-based. Recommends building CI pipelines with policy as code (Open Policy Agent), linting and security (checkov, tfsec, tflint) and cost checks (infracost).
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:33Defining Infrastructure as Code
- 5:47Evaluating IaC tools
- 9:00Terraform vs CloudFormation
- 11:14Pulumi multi-language
- 14:25OpenTofu alternative
- 16:38Ansible and Salt
- 18:30Right tool for stack
- 20:18Operationalizing IaC
- 22:49Summary & Q&A
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