Company
Date Published
Author
Richard Black
Word count
1289
Language
English
Hacker News points
None

Summary

OpenTofu has emerged as a promising open-source successor to Terraform, offering a transparent and community-driven alternative following Terraform's shift to a Business Source License (BSL) in 2023. This change has led to a community-driven fork that maintains compatibility with Terraform's HCL syntax and workflows, but with enhanced features like OCI registries and encryption at rest, allowing users to manage infrastructure securely and efficiently. OpenTofu's development is guided by contributors and public RFC processes, ensuring a more agile and user-focused innovation than the centralized governance of Terraform. Harness Infrastructure as Code Management (IaCM) supports OpenTofu, enabling seamless migration and integration into existing workflows without compromising on security or scalability. The community-centric approach of OpenTofu encourages participation, allowing users to influence the future of infrastructure automation while maintaining the open-source ethos of collaboration and transparency.