Google Anthos vs Terraform

Question

For research, I'm currently looking into Anthos and Terraform and I'm struggling to see a very big difference.

As far as I understood Terraform:

• is used to automate and manage provisioning infrastructure out of / as Code.
• works via API / CLI

For Anthos:

• used to build, deploy, and manage applications in multiple clouds
• has a Platform (UI) but can be triggered via API

What point am I missing here? Is it just the infrastructure vs application part or is there more?

best Regards Andre

Answer 1

Terraform is Infrastructure as a Code, so you can manage your whole infra by writing .tf files and much more. Also, you can even manage your Anthos clusters with Terraform.

Anthos, on the other hand, is Google's powerful product so you can manage several Kubernetes clusters (different cloud providers) within one GCP account. So if you don't need multiple clouds, you don't need Anthos at all.