
Terraform
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| Fact | Terraform | terraform-compliance |
|---|---|---|
| Purpose | Terraform is an infrastructure-as-code tool for defining, provisioning, and managing cloud and on-premises resources through human-readable configuration files. | terraform-compliance is a lightweight, security- and compliance-focused test framework for negative testing of infrastructure as code written with Terraform. |
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.
It suits developers and security teams who want readable policy tests for Terraform plans and can supply plan or state output. Teams can also keep the feature files in a separate repository owned by another group.