My internship mentor asked me to look into Infrastructure as Code best practices, so what are the actual differences between Terraform and AWS CloudFormation for someone who just started learning DevOps?
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Terraform vs AWS CloudFormation official documentation state management plan apply change sets modules drift detection Google ↗
- Official Terraform documentation · developer.hashicorp.com
- Official CloudFormation documentation · docs.aws.amazon.com
- State | Terraform · docs.hashicorp.com
- Getting started with Terraform: Guidance for AWS CDK and AWS CloudFormation experts · docs.aws.amazon.com
- AWS CloudFormation Documentation · aws.amazon.com
- Terraform versus CloudFormation, Heat, and other infrastructure as code tools | Terraform · docs.hashicorp.com
- CloudFormation best practices · docs.aws.amazon.com
- CloudFormation best practices · docs.aws.amazon.com
- Detect infrastructure drift and enforce policies | Terraform · docs.hashicorp.com
- HashiCorp – Terraform AWS tutorials · developer.hashicorp.com