Ansible + Terraform for automating the cloud

Is there a more effective way for IT admins to use Terraform to efficiently manage and optimize their cloud infrastructure after deployment? Join Matthew Packer, Principal Product Marketing Manager at Red Hat, as he explores the powerful combination of Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and Terraform for working with cloud infrastructure. Terraform excels at deploying infrastructure to the cloud, but how do you handle important post-deployment tasks? Discover how Terraform and Ansible Automation Platform can work together, allowing you to automate application deployments, optimize infrastructure, and ensure continuous updates and troubleshooting.
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[@klwq]

Would admins need to have separate platforms to visualize the work done on terraform and ansible or can ansible automation platform integrate terraform ?

[@frankwu16]

Nice video

[@rajeevsatyanarayana5376]

Do we support the integration of ansible and OpenTofu? Do we have opentofu module, like we have for terraform?

[@redhat]

At this time Red Hat does not have an integration, but we continue to monitor the OpenTofu project and its progress.

[@vincentyrl]

Ansible have module to deploy in gcp, example. Why not used this module ?

[@MrChillbaer]

Terraform tracks the state of your infrastructure and ensures idempotency on that level, Ansible only does that on configuration level. Depending on the submodule you're using in your playbook, you would create the same resource multiple times every time you execute the playbook. Using both systems simultaneously is key here. Maybe picture it like this: Instead of admitting how crappy the implementation of the Ansible/community cloud modules like aws is, they focus on saying how good Ansible is in general for automation. But anyone correct me if I'm wrong here, also just getting started with TF.