31. CloudFormation or Terraform?
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Terraform: A Client-Server Model
The main feature of Terraform is that you can write your infrastructure as code using a HCL, then you can plan what happens if you want to apply those changes. There are also other interesting extensibility features like plugins and modules that we can probably discuss a little bit more later. But fundamentally the state in cloud formation is stored in something called a stack and that state is something that AWS manages for you. So it all happens then cloud side rather than this client server.
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