The Linux Foundation announced the launch of OpenTofu , an open source alternative to and forked from Terraform. OpenTofu, formerly known as OpenTF, provides everyone with a reliable open source alternative under a neutral governance model.
Terraform is a secure and efficient open source tool from HashiCorp for building, changing and merging infrastructure. Terraform can manage existing popular services and provide custom solutions. It has played a key role in simplifying infrastructure management for cloud environments, but Terraform recently changed its license from MPLv2.0 to a "non-open source license" BSLv1.1 (Business Source License), triggering a backlash from the open source community. This change threatens the entire community and ecosystem built around Terraform over the past nine years.
At that time, the OpenTF community launched a declaration calling on HashiCorp to let Terraform return to the community and restore the open source protocol. If it refused, the community would fork Terraform. This manifesto has received 35k+ stars.
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Now officially launched, OpenTofu has received extensive support from industry leaders such as Harness, Gruntwork, Spacelift, env0, Scalr, Digger, Terramate, Massdriver, Terramate, etc. OpenTofu has received official support from more than 140 organizations and more than 600 individuals. Support. "
“We believe that the fundamental building blocks of the modern Internet—tools like Linux, Kubernetes, and Terraform—must be truly open source,” said Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, co-founder and CEO of Gruntwork and a member of the founding team of OpenTofu . "This is the only way to ensure that our industry is built on a solid and predictable foundation. This is why we are very happy that OpenTofu is now part of the Linux Foundation: handing this project to a foundation, rather than a company, means OpenTofu will be community driven and always truly open source."