我找的一段话,试着理解一下:
Chef, Puppet, Ansible, and SaltStack are all configuration management tools,
which means they are designed to install and manage software on existing
servers. CloudFormation and Terraform are provisioning tools, which means
they are designed to provision the servers themselves (as well as the rest
of your infrastructure, like load balancers, databases, networking
configuration, etc), leaving the job of configuring those servers to other
tools. These two categories are not mutually exclusive, as most
configuration management tools can do some degree of provisioning and most
provisioning tools can do some degree of configuration management. But the
focus on configuration management or provisioning means that some of the
tools are going to be a better fit for certain types of tasks.
可以理解为初始化,但貌似无直接中译名。
Ref:
https://blog.gruntwork.io/why-we-use-terraform-and-not-chef-puppet-ansibl...
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