In today’s fast-evolving cloud landscape, leaning on vendor‑specific Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager (ARM), or Google Deployment Manager is expected when using the corresponding vendor’s cloud environment. However, this leads to portability, flexibility, and scalability issues. These tools often sow the seeds of vendor lock‑in, burdensome maintenance, and fragmented governance—especially in multi‑ or hybrid‑cloud environments. Even single‑cloud environments are affected by these issues. Cross‑platform IaC tools, like Terraform, Pulumi, and OpenTofu, offer a unified experience that reduces vendor lock‑in and improves infrastructure agility. With one set of code, one state management approach, and one governance model, CIOs can gain consistency, visibility, and control of their cloud environments without reinventing the wheel for each cloud.
A Dive into Cross-platform IaC Tools
Infrastructure as Code (IaC) lets you define, provision, and manage infrastructure with code instead …