Ansible Vs Terraform - What is the difference between Ansible and Terraform - Ansible Vs Terraform

This is one of the common DevOps interview questions. What is the difference between Ansible and Terraform? When will you choose Ansible over Terraform?

Factor	Ansible	Terraform
Type	Configuration mgmt	Provisioning
Infrastructure	mutable	Immutable
Language	Procedural	Declarative
Written in	Python	Go
Architecture	client only	client only
State Management	No	Yes
Cloud	All	All
Syntax	YAML	JSON
UI/CLI	Has both UI(Ansible Tower) and CLI	only CLI based