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Tools: Terraform
Category: CI, CD and infrastructure
Site: terraform.io
Terraform
The declarative infrastructure tool that made state files and plan output an industry convention.
Everyone else is compared to this.
What it is sold for
Declaring and provisioning infrastructure across clouds.
The address redirects to https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform, which is worth knowing before you follow it.
Named alongside
These entries mention each other by name. It is a weak relationship and it is the only one the catalogue can show without inventing something.
Named by:
- An agent skill for deploying to Kubernetes, portable across any assistant that reads a skill file.
- Orchestration for infrastructure pipelines across Terraform, OpenTofu and Ansible, with policy applied between plan and apply.
- Shows the cost of an infrastructure change in the pull request, before it is applied.
- Began with SDK generation from API specifications, now positioned around governing agents and MCP servers.
- GitOps-native Terraform and OpenTofu automation, driven from pull requests rather than a separate console.
Same shelf
The rest of ci, cd and infrastructure, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.
- Automation for finance operations, built as workflows rather than as spreadsheets.
- Agentless configuration management over SSH, with playbooks in YAML and no daemon on the target.
- Orchestrates AWS services as a state machine, so retries and failure branches are configuration rather than code.
- Artifact and release management for teams shipping binaries: mobile, desktop, games, XR and embedded.
- Process orchestration for long-running work that spans people, systems and now agents, with the model as the executable.
- A hosted CI platform, one of the older ones, now marketing itself around validating machine-written changes.
- Metrics, logs, traces and a great deal more in one platform. The default answer for large-scale monitoring, and priced like it.
- Deploys from a git host to servers with build steps, zero-downtime releases and one-click rollback.
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