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		piahoo on April 28, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: What is the real difference between Terraf... terraform manages infrastructure (e.g. creating VM). ansible manages configuration (e.g. installing tools on fresh VM)

h91wka on April 28, 2020 [–]

To be fair, one can manage infrastructure with Ansible too.

toyg on April 28, 2020 | [–]

And one can manage configuration with Terraform too, via null-resource blocks and so on.

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