Supported Capabilities for IaC Technologies
This table lists the capabilities supported for each IaC or container technology.
| Terraform | Helm | K8S native | CloudFormation | vCenter | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inputs/Outputs | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Tags | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Update (commits behind) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Drift | ✔️ | ✔️ | |||
| Policies | ✔️ | ✔️ | |||
| Discovery | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Logs/infra | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |
| Introspection | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Scripts (extensibility) | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | |
| Day-2 (VM power commands) | ✔️ | ||||
| SSH/RDP | ✔️ | ||||
| Secret management | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ |