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OpenTF for an open Terraform (Changelog Interviews #556)

Sep 6, 2023
01:22:10
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Josh Padnick joins the podcast to discuss the launch of OpenTF, the licensing changes to HashiCorp's Terraform, and the impact of Terraform on infrastructure-as-code. They also talk about eliminating the need for static IP addresses with TailScale, enabling APM and handling performance issues, and the vision for OpenTF as a drop-in replacement for Terraform.
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Quick takeaways

  • The OpenTF community was formed in response to HashiCorp's license change for Terraform, aiming to provide a clear, unambiguous open source license and maintain backward compatibility with HashiCorp Terraform.
  • OpenTF has gained significant support and adoption, with the OpenTF manifesto repo garnering 25,000 GitHub stars, and it is committed to full-time employees, compatibility, and joining the Linux Foundation and the Cloud Native Computing Foundation.

Deep dives

The OpenTF manifesto and the license change

The OpenTF community was formed in response to HashiCorp's license change for Terraform. The manifesto, signed by over 110 companies, called for HashiCorp to revert to an open source license. However, HashiCorp did not respond and the decision was made to fork Terraform.

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