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Ansible is an agentless automation tool for infrastructure as code that configures servers and deploys applications with YAML playbooks over SSH.
Configuration drift is the gap that grows between the declared infrastructure as code and the resources that actually run in a cloud account.
Declarative configuration describes the desired end state of cloud infrastructure and lets a tool work out the steps needed to reach and keep that state.
Infrastructure as code (IaC) manages servers, networks and cloud services through versioned, machine-readable definitions instead of manual setup.
OpenTofu is an open-source infrastructure as code tool that provisions cloud resources from declarative HCL files and forked from Terraform in 2023.
Pulumi is an infrastructure as code platform that defines cloud resources in general-purpose languages such as TypeScript, Python, Go and C#.
Terraform is an infrastructure as code tool that declares cloud resources in HCL files and plans, creates and updates them through provider APIs.