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Terraform and ansible. Script service configuration and use source control. Containerize services where possible to make them system agnostic.
How do you decide what's for Terraform and what's for Ansible?
They're good at different things.
Terraform is better at "here is a configuration file - make my infrastructure look like it" and Ansible is better at "do these things on these servers".
In my case I use Terraform to create proxmox VMs and then Ansible provisions and configures software on those VMs.