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I’ve used several different IaC tools; Puppet, Ansible, Terraform and Polumi to name a few. What would you say are key differentiators of PyInfra from these ex

• Fizzadar 3y ago
  Both Terraform and Pulumi differ slightly I think provisioning cloud resources - pyinfra can be used alongside to setup instances/etc, I’ve used the pyinfra/Terraform combo with great success. For ansible/chef, etc the main reasons/benefits boil down to: - instant feedback esp on errors, get the stdout/stderr of whatever command pyinfra was executing, there’s no agent or abstraction to hide it - configure in python rather than yaml+jinja2 mess - integrate with the whole python package ecosystem - speed and small overhead as inventories scale