We performed a comparison between Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and HashiCorp Terraform based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out what your peers are saying about AlgoSec, Tufin, Palo Alto Networks and others in Firewall Security Management."We like the availability of the hardware and the service that we get from FortiGate, as well as the kind of reach that they have as a part of their sales folks."
"The tool's GUI is user-friendly."
"This product is easy to manage and easy to use."
"The sandboxing feature is very important."
"I like Fortinet FortiGate Cloud's simple UX and UI designs and the fact that it is also a VPN solution for our clients. The solution is user-friendly."
"One firewall box can contain various top-of-the-line services that are packaged together for easy administration."
"The most valuable feature is the inspection. It inspects before we have any traffic stops intrusion."
"It's quite easy to use, and it's easy to find the necessary information from the web."
"The valuable features of HashiCorp Terraform are the infrastructure can be written, shared, and collaborated on using code, which speeds up deployment. Additionally, bugs and issues can be fixed in the code and redeployed, making it less risky. It is a more efficient method compared to the traditional approach of writing scripts to set up infrastructure."
"The ARM template is very easy to work with, which is a big help to us."
"It is easy to recreate an exact duplicate or output of an environment."
"The solution helps us save a lot of costs."
"The most valuable feature of HashiCorp Terraform is the custom modules."
"We save a lot of time with this solution."
"The first thing I like about the solution is that it keeps a version of your infrastructure."
"The concept of infrastructure as code is quite intriguing. We have an infrastructure in our code and a state file where we can verify whether something is changed when it was changed, and who changed it. When we use Terraform, these kinds of things fascinate us."
"When we're upgrading, it's sometimes quite challenging, especially firmware. We usually don't upgrade unless we have a bug, and we still feel it's not safe to react instead of being proactive. We often have some delays when updating FortiGuard, too."
"The Linux version currently lacks some of the latest features, notably in the IPv6 tool stack, which is available for Windows clients."
"Fortinet FortiGate Cloud could improve the dashboards."
"We needed to do some training to be able to implement Fortinet FortiGate Cloud and after the training, we did the implementation in-house."
"The product is not recommended on the basis of technical parameters. It is very tough to authenticate."
"GUI access could be improved. It should be simpler to access everything from the portal. Once we log in to the portal, we should be able to access all the Fortinet Cloud options."
"It would be much better if Fortinet FortiGate Cloud allowed third-party integrations like multi factor-authentication."
"The SSL visibility could be better."
"The error logging could be better. Sometimes, when you try to set something on Terraform, it gives you an error, but you don't understand how the error has been logged."
"Lacks flexibility in common programming languages."
"From a user's perspective, it would be great if a UI tool is made available in the open source version as well, but I don't think it may be introduced because of the high costs for it announced by HashiCorp in its licensed version...HashiCorp Terraform can improve backward compatibility."
"The product can integrate and utilize more services from different competitors. Currently, their commands are quite similar to Kubernetes, which we use in our CI/CD pipeline. Also, they should consider incorporating Windows command line, like PowerShell."
"They should include tutorials for understanding the use cases."
"I still struggle a bit when configuring VPNs when we have multiple rules. If we have five or six virtual private clouds and we have to give rights between those multiple VPCs, we can have big problems. I think it was a learning curve and then we improved it."
"The product's initial setup phase was easy."
"The integration with this solution needs to be improved."
Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is ranked 5th in Firewall Security Management with 55 reviews while HashiCorp Terraform is ranked 7th in Configuration Management with 38 reviews. Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is rated 8.2, while HashiCorp Terraform is rated 8.6. The top reviewer of Fortinet FortiGate Cloud writes "Useful for routing and cloud security purposes but needs to incorporate XDR capabilities ". On the other hand, the top reviewer of HashiCorp Terraform writes "Easy to use, technically strong, and great for multi-provider or multi-cloud environments". Fortinet FortiGate Cloud is most compared with Fortinet FortiManager, AWS Firewall Manager, Palo Alto Networks Panorama, FortiGate Cloud-Native Firewall (FortiGate CNF) and Skybox Security Suite, whereas HashiCorp Terraform is most compared with Microsoft Intune, Red Hat Satellite, SaltStack, Microsoft Configuration Manager and CFEngine Enterprise.
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