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Ansible is an automation engine that automates cloud provisioning and configuration management, application deployment, intraservice orchestration, and many other IT requirements.

Terraform is an open source infrastructure as code software tool. It provides a consistent CLI workflow for managing hundreds of cloud services. Terraform codifies cloud APIs into declarative configuration files. Write infrastructure as code using declarative configuration files. The HashiCorp Configuration Language allows for concise descriptions using blocks, arguments and expressions of resources. Run terraform plan before you provision or change infrastructure. To achieve the desired configuration state, apply changes to hundreds cloud providers using terraform. To manage the entire lifecycle of infrastructure, define it as code. Create new resources, manage existing ones, destroy those that are no longer needed.

All of your apps can be built, managed, protected, and managed on any cloud. VMware's Multi-Cloud solutions provide a cloud operating system for all applications. The world's most widely used cloud infrastructure is available to support your digital business initiatives. You can leverage the same skills that you use in the data centre, but also tap into the depth and breadth six global hyperscale public clouds providers and 4,000+ VMware Cloud Provider Partners. You get consistent infrastructure and operations for cloud native applications from the data center to the edge with hybrid cloud built on VMware Cloud Foundation. This consistency increases agility, reduces cost, and lowers risk. Modern apps can be built, managed, and maintained on any cloud. They can meet diverse needs using both public and on-premises cloud resources. You can manage both container-based and traditional VM-based workloads from one platform.

KVM is a full virtualization solution that runs Linux on x86 hardware and includes virtualization extensions (Intel VT, AMD-V). It includes a loadable kernel module, called kvm.ko that provides the core virtualization infrastructure, and a processor-specific module, kvm.intel.ko. KVM allows you to run multiple virtual machines that run unmodified Linux and Windows images. Each virtual machine is equipped with private virtualized hardware such as a network card and disk, graphics adapter, and so on. KVM is open-source software. As of 2.6.20, the kernel component of KVM is part of mainline Linux. Mainline QEMU includes the userspace component of KVM as of 1.3.