I have been an avid user of Terraform and use it to do many things in infrastructure, be it provisioning machines or setting up my whole stack. When I started working with Helm, my first impression was “Wow! This is like Terraform for Kubernetes resources!”. What re-kindled these thoughts again was when a few weeks ago Hashicorp announced support for Kubernetes provider via terraform. So one can use Terraform to provision their infrastructure as well as to manage Kubernetes resources. So I decided to take both for a test drive and see what works better in one vs. the other. Before we get to the meat, a quick recap of similarities and differences. For brevity in this blog post when I mention terraform, I am referring to the terraform kubernetes provider.

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