---
title: "IaC Ergonomics: Choosing an Infrastructure as Code Tool"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/iac-ergonomics-choosing-an-infrastructure-as-code-tool-0h8hbc1nf
source_url: https://leebriggs.co.uk/blog/2022/08/26/choosing-an-iac-tool.html
type: article
source: "Lee Briggs"
published: 2023-10-10T13:16:59.857Z
updated: 2024-03-14T02:17:40.272Z
tags: ["aws-cloudformation", "crossplane", "iac", "terraform"]
reading_time: 18
upvotes: 0
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# IaC Ergonomics: Choosing an Infrastructure as Code Tool

**[Lee Briggs](https://daily.dev/sources/leebriggs)** · 18 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The article discusses the authoring experiences, execution experiences, and cloud provider experiences in Infrastructure as Code tools. It compares different tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, Crossplane, ARM, and Pulumi. It highlights the importance of considering programming language-based authoring experiences and provides a decision tree to help readers choose the right tool.

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Tags: [#aws-cloudformation](https://daily.dev/tags/aws-cloudformation), [#crossplane](https://daily.dev/tags/crossplane), [#iac](https://daily.dev/tags/iac), [#terraform](https://daily.dev/tags/terraform)

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