Ansible inventory plugin instead of Terraform?

Hello!

I am trying to setup a cloud with VPC and want to make it private by restricting access only for internal nodes and avoid using floating IPs (except for vpn server).

The problem is that I can’t rely on private IP addresses to manage ansible inventory, because they can change if I recreate deployment from scratch and even not sure if they may change on reboots.

To handle this, I decided to use ansible DO inventory plugin. It seems to allow dynamic extraction of droplets’ private IP addresses instead of hardcoding them in the inventory.

And here is the dilemma I have on how to manage my setup:

• Terraform (to manage infrastructure) + Ansible DO inventory plugin (to extract private IP addresses dynamically)
• Ansible DO inventory plugin to do both tasks

I don’t have much experience, but it seems there is no difference whether to define droplets/firewalls/… using Terraform or using digital_ocean_droplet/digital_ocean_firewall/… from the ansible DO inventory plugin.

So the question is, should I get rid of Terraform to simplify things or I will regret it at some point of time? If so, what are the pros of sticking with Terraform?

Thanks to everyone in advance!