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Community Driven IaC: OpenTofu with Kuba Martin

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Oct 17, 2023
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Kuba Martin
Kuba Martin, Software Engineering Team Lead at Spacelift and Interim Tech Lead of OpenTofu, the open-source fork of Terraform, discusses how OpenTofu handled licensing and copyright, benefits of a technical steering committee, recreating the community registry, and more.
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ANECDOTE

OpenTofu Forking Story

  • HashiCorp's licensing switch from MPL to BSL prompted the OpenTofu fork.
  • This sparked uncertainty among companies relying on Terraform, leading to a rapid, collaborative forking effort.
INSIGHT

Forking Challenges and OpenTofu's Approach

  • Forking can create community splits, requiring users to choose sides.
  • OpenTofu aims to maintain compatibility with Terraform while introducing new features and a separate roadmap.
ANECDOTE

OpenTF Manifesto

  • The OpenTF Manifesto garnered significant interest and pledges from individuals and companies.
  • The manifesto's call to maintain open-source sparked a strong community response, even before code release.
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