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     7  # Terraform vs. Chef, Puppet, etc.
     8  
     9  Configuration management tools install and manage tools on a machine
    10  that already exists.  Terraform is not a configuration management tool,
    11  and uses the existing tooling to do what they do best: bootstrap and initialize resources.
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    13  Using provisioners, Terraform allows any configuration management tool
    14  to be used to setup a resource once it has been created. Terraform
    15  focuses on the higher-level abstraction of the datacenter and associated
    16  services, without sacrificing the ability to use configuration management
    17  tools to do what they do best. It also embraces the same codification that
    18  is responsible for the success of those tools, making entire infrastructure
    19  deployments easy and reliable.
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