IBM Terraform (formerly HashiCorp Terraform) vs. env zero

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.

env zero is the company behind the autonomous cloud control plane for large enterprises running infrastructure at scale. Formed through the merger of env zero and CloudQuery in March 2026, the platform pairs CloudQuery's ability to continuously extract every cloud and infrastructure source into a single central data store with env zero's IaC governance, then layers a knowledge graph on top, so the whole estate can be understood and operated deterministically by both people and AI.