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     6    An overview of how Terraform compares to other software and tools.
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     8  
     9  # Terraform vs. Other Software
    10  
    11  Terraform provides a flexible abstraction of resources and providers. This model
    12  allows for representing everything from physical hardware, virtual machines, and
    13  containers, to email and DNS providers. Because of this flexibility, Terraform
    14  can be used to solve many different problems. This means there are a number of
    15  existing tools that overlap with the capabilities of Terraform. We compare Terraform
    16  to a number of these tools, but it should be noted that Terraform is not mutually
    17  exclusive with other systems. It can be used to manage a single application, or the
    18  entire datacenter.
    19  
    20  Use the navigation on the left to read comparisons of Terraform versus other
    21  specific systems.