Ansible vs Terraform: Which is Really Better for Infrastructure?

✅ Full code from the video on Github: https://github.com/toptechskills/yt-2024-ansible-vs-terraform 🛠️ Check out my Ansible course: https://learn.toptechskills.com/courses/productive-with-ansible (early access) In this video I compare Ansible and Terraform by using both tools to spin up a publicly accessible EC2 instance and configure it to respond to HTTP requests. Ansible and Terraform are both Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, each with its own strengths and weaknesses. I personally think Terraform is superior to Ansible for the "Infrastructure Management" part of IaC, but Ansible is the right tool to use for "Configuration Management" and "Infrastructure Orchestration" -- this video shows you why. 0:41 - Intro to the repo and task 1:13 - Intro to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) + where Ansible and Terraform fit 2:24 - Provision a publicly accessible EC2 instance with Ansible 4:14 - Making changes to existing AWS infrastructure with Ansible 5:56 - Destroying existing AWS infrastructure with Ansible 6:24 - Summary of "Infrastructure Management" in Ansible 6:58 - Provision a publicly accessible EC2 instance with Terraform 9:23 - Making changes to existing AWS infrastructure with Terraform 11:24 - Ansible vs Terraform for "Infrastructure Management" 11:42 - Remote state in Terraform 12:08 - Destroying existing AWS infrastructure with Terraform 12:46 - Downsides of Terraform vs Ansible (for "Infrastructure Management") 13:46 - Configure EC2 instance to respond to HTTP requests using Ansible ("Configuration Management") 16:01 - Do a rolling restart/rolling reboot of EC2 instances using Ansible ("Infrastructure Orchestration") Thanks for watching and hope it's entertaining/useful for you! Hit me up in the comments if you have any questions or feedback 💪. Related & Channel ▶️ http://bit.ly/2VWid3D == Playlist of all Ansible videos ⭐️ http://bit.ly/2HavqCu == Subscribe to our YouTube Channel Our Site & Socials 🌐 http://bit.ly/2shtKwZ == TopTechSkills.com 🐦 http://bit.ly/2RkgZkk == @TopTechSkills on Twitter 🐦 http://bit.ly/2AA19aN == @PercyGrunwald on Twitter 😃 http://bit.ly/2ACQgEW == @TopTechSkills on Facebook 🕹 http://bit.ly/2CWR3ST == @PercyGrunwald on Twitch