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Title: Virtual Infrastructure Management Authors: Andrej Tkáč; Martin Bobák Venue: Cybernetics & Informatics (K&I) Year: 2025 Canonical: doi:10.1109/ki64036.2025.10916477 URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/ki64036.2025.10916477 Collector: openalex OA: false ABSTRACT The paper provides a comparative analysis of virtual infrastructure management and explores Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools. The analysis identifies a missing OpenTofu component from the Terraform ecosystem - a management platform. The paper result is a proof of concept for the management platform leveraging the OpenTofu tool, which aims to be a complementary component for OpenTofu similar to Terraform and Terraform Cloud/HCP Terraform. The platform offers a graphical user interface through which a user can manage virtual infrastructures. It allows the use of configurations in the declarative Terraform Configuration Language (HCL) format for deployment or modification of infrastructures, along with adjustable values outside the given configuration. The user can execute an apply or destroy action with a given configuration and variables, prompting the management platform to create a plan by invoking OpenTofu.