Terragrunt vs Terraform: Battle of DevOps tools

Originally posted on https://www.virtualizationhowto.com on August 21, 2023 by Brandon Lee.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) has become widely adopted by many, including in production environments, development labs, and by home lab enthusiasts to deploy infrastructure. Terraform is arguably one of the top tools used by DevOps professionals. However, there is another tool you may not have heard about called Terragrunt. What is Terragrunt? What about Terragrunt vs Terraform? Are they competing solutions?

What is Terraform?

Most likely, you have heard about Terraform. Terraform is an open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool that allows developers to create, modify, and manage multiple environments through simple text files.

It’s a powerful tool for infrastructure provisioning on different cloud platforms, and its wide adoption can be attributed to several key features that eliminate the need to use the same infrastructure manual steps that have been used for years.

Below, running the terraform command to see the command parameters.