The 7 Best Open Source Tools to Deliver Infra-as-Code (IaC)

In this month's episode of Radio Cloud Naitve, Sr. Solution Architect, Kevin Ng, of Mirantis is back to share his findings related to 7 common open source-based tools that relate to cloud native infrastructure and configuration management. He will present some background on each of the 7 tools he researched before diving into an in-depth comparison based on use case, functionality, ease-of-use, and security features. Perfect for DevOps folks, Kevin's episode will enable you to conquer Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), leveraging the best tools for your specific use case.

Furthermore, Kevin will present an example scenario of how to leverage these tools to deploy k0s, an open source, fully upstream Kubernetes Distro created and maintained by the teams at Mirantis. Armed with Kevin's knowledge, your DevOps team can drastically streamline its current approach to IaC.

A full list of topics from this episode include:

• Intro to Pulumi, Terraform, Ansible, Chef, Puppet, SaltStack & Vagrant
• Deploying k0s with each of these tools (above)
• Ease-of-Use of these tools (above)
• Security frameworks for each of these tools (above)
• Infrastructure vs Configuration management with these tools (above)
• How to select the tool that's right for you

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