Hashicorp Terraform Review
June 24, 2024

Hashicorp Terraform Review

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Software Version

Terraform CLI

Overall Satisfaction with HashiCorp Terraform

We are using HashiCorp Terraform CLI extensively in our platform for creating and managing AWS and Kubernetes resources. HashiCorp Terraform helps us to create multiple resources quickly within minutes. We are using it to differentiate configurations for different environments thereby helping us to manage our resources easily. Modules have also helped us in creating dynamic reusable templates for resource creations.

Pros

  • AWS and GCP resource provisioning like VM, IAM roles and users, EKS clisters
  • State management for maintaining existing resources and have a single source of truth.
  • Reusable codebase for different configurations using HashiCorp Terraform modules

Cons

  • Infrastructure Testing using native framework or mock tests
  • Importing multiple resources at a time
  • Documentation for providers and corresponding APIs can be improved
  • Greatly reduced the time to create networking resources from 3 days to 10 mins.
  • Cost optimization of around 40% by cleaning up unused resources automatically.
HashiCorp Terraform has Cloud agnostic capability to use with different cloud vendors and the ease of creating the code with minimal effort.

Do you think HashiCorp Terraform delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with HashiCorp Terraform's feature set?

Yes

Did HashiCorp Terraform live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of HashiCorp Terraform go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy HashiCorp Terraform again?

Yes

Provisioning and managing cloud resources is great.
State management as well as reusable modules help greatly creating resources quickly.
onfiguration management like bootstraping a VM or running shell scripts commands can is quite tricky with HashiCorp Terraform.

HashiCorp Terraform Feature Ratings

Infrastructure Automation
9
Automated Provisioning
9
Parallel Execution
7
Node Management
6
Reporting & Logging
7
Inventory Control
9
Version Control
8
Role-based access control
9

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