[kovek]

I tried Terraform this weekend and it was awesome to use. Spinning up a new ec2 instance was very quick. Almost just as quick when you spin up multiple instances.

It supports "providers", which are interfaces to the different vendors (aws, foogle cloud, etc), and "provisioners", which are frameworks for configuring a running instance (chef? Docker? Zookeeper?)

[YawningAngel]

Plausibly, if what I want is "start a kubernetes cluster with an ingress and a database", that's portable to every cloud provider. However, with terraform, you have to write platform-specific code to do this that isn't portable between providers.