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OpenTF is a proposal to fork Terraform and keep it open (opentf.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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If HashiCorp is unwilling to switch Terraform back to an open source license, we propose to fork the legacy MPL-licensed Terraform and maintain the fork in the foundation. This is similar to how Linux and Kubernetes are managed by foundations (the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, respectively), which are run by multiple companies, ensuring the tool stays truly open source and neutral and not at the whim of any one company.

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[–] fubo 43 points 1 year ago

Seems to me that Hashicorp forked Terraform by altering the license in a way that many (most?) contributors aren't on board with; and OpenTF is the mainline now.

[+] MsPenguinette 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

What is terraform?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since the other replies weren't that detailed, I'll chime in.

Terraform is a way to write a file (or a bunch of files) on your machine, and then it will set up things in a cloud service based on what's in those files. So if I wanted a web server, a load balancer, and these security rules I could just put it in Terraform instead of clicking around a web interface.

The way I use it, it's the equivalent of building a PC, and then I use other tools like scripts or something called Ansible to install the software and get it configured.

It is pretty magical to be able to get an entire application stack deployed with a single command.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Appreciate it!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Infrastructure as code

[–] MsPenguinette 2 points 1 year ago

A lovely magical tool where you tell it what you want things to be and it does the magic of making that happen. It's the infrastructure as code version of a genie.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

And now they've posted details on the impressive work already being done on the fork: https://opentf.org/announcement

This seems like such a self-inflicted disaster for HashiCorp. I'm really wondering how they'll respond.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Would be interesting to see comparisons using data from openhub to try and estimate which project is more popular.