IaC vs. CM Tools

- [Instructor] We've discussed a lot of tools. … Let's take a look scenarios where you may choose … IaC over configuration management tools … or the other way around. … ARM templates are a great tool to use … if all your deployments are in Azure. … One of the main benefits you get here … are full resource provisioning support. … A good example of this is a few years back, … Terraform didn't have the ability … to provision AKS instances. … Whereas through ARM templates, you could do this. … Finally, if you want integration with existing services … such as blueprints and tracking deployments in the portal, … this is a great solution. … Terraform shines when you have multicloud setups. … Another cool factor is the ability to execute other scripts … such as Powershelf and within Terraform. … Lastly, the concept of state is very powerful. … It gives us the ability to revert whenever we need to. … Whereas with ARM templates, … you can only do rollback in limited scenarios. … Configuration management tools are especially useful …