
Platform9 Private Cloud Director
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| Fact | Platform9 Private Cloud Director | Terraform |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2013 | 2012 |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Integrations | The product page lists integrations with NetApp, Pure Storage, Dell/EMC, HPE, IBM, Commvault, Veeam, Veritas, Rubrik, Cohesity, Splunk, Okta, New Relic, and ServiceNow. | HashiCorp lists integrations for AI and MCP servers, audit, CI/CD, VCS, security scanning, policy, cost management, SSO, observability, and multi-cloud platforms. |
| Purpose | Private Cloud Director manages virtualized and Kubernetes infrastructure at scale using existing server and storage investments. | Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code tool for defining, provisioning, and managing cloud and on-premises resources through human-readable configuration files. |
Private Cloud Director suits organizations managing VMs and Kubernetes together on existing server and storage infrastructure. Community Edition is positioned for homelabs, development and testing, and proof of concept work.
Terraform Community Edition suits practitioners who want a downloadable command-line tool for infrastructure provisioning. HCP Terraform's free features are described as suitable for small teams, while larger organizations may need paid collaboration and governance features.