Terraform and Ansible solve different layers of the same problem.
Terraform is great at provisioning infrastructure resources (networks, instances, managed services) declaratively. Ansible shines when you need to configure those resources — installing packages, hardening OS settings, deploying app configuration, and managing idempotent changes over time.
In the full guide, we cover:
- A practical division of responsibility: what to do in Terraform vs what to keep in Ansible
- Patterns for “handoff” (passing IPs/hostnames/outputs from Terraform into Ansible inventory)
- Execution sequencing (plan/apply → configure) and how teams automate it in CI/CD
- Common pitfalls (timing, drift, secrets, and scaling across environments) and how to avoid them
➡️ Read the full article on our blog:
https://spacelift.io/blog/using-terraform-and-ansible-together
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