Azure Resource Manager vs. IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform)

Azure Resource Manager (ARM) is Microsoft's deployment and management service for Azure, providing a unified layer to create, update, and delete resources within your Azure account. It enables users to manage their infrastructure through declarative templates, ensuring consistent and repeatable deployments across various environments. By organizing resources into groups, ARM simplifies monitoring, access control, and billing, offering a streamlined approach to resource management.

IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform) is an infrastructure as code tool that lets you define both cloud and on-prem resources in human-readable configuration files that you can version, reuse, and share. You can then use a consistent workflow to provision and manage all of your infrastructure throughout its lifecycle. Terraform can manage low-level components like compute, storage, and networking resources, as well as high-level components like DNS entries and SaaS features.