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7/5/2026

Why Snap CD: Non-invasive Orchestration
Short summary
Snap CD orchestrates Terraform deployments without vendor lock-in by avoiding wrapper CLIs, proprietary plan formats, opinionated directory structures, and custom state backends. Unlike traditional CD tools, Snap CD runs real Terraform binaries, delivers inputs via standard .tfvars files and environment variables, and keeps all orchestration configuration in its own metadata layer. Your infrastructure code remains portable, inspectable, and works with or without the tool.
- •Snap CD avoids vendor lock-in by not wrapping Terraform or imposing tool-specific constraints
- •Runs real Terraform binaries with standard input delivery (.tfvars, env vars) and existing state backends
- •Keeps infrastructure code portable and inspectable; orchestration metadata stays outside .tf files
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