HashiCorp recently changed Terraform from an open source model to something that requires licensing, so folks got together, forked the code, and created OpenTF.

  • iluminae@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    I’m glad they are doing this but in all likelihood most people who use terraform are not offering terraform to third parties on a hosted or embedded basis which is competitive with HashiCorp's products and can continue to make production use of it.

    But like I said, I am glad it’s happening - as an insurance policy.

    • MotorheadKusanagi@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      321·
      2 years ago

      That misses the point, imo. Much of Hashi’s ecosystem was created by people who contributed to the product believing it was community owned, as that’s what the license said.

      Oracle tried to do similar when they closed the source for Hudson. Hudson was forked, creating Jenkins, and I would be surprised if folks even remember Hudson today.

      Oxide Computing gets into the details on their podcast: https://youtu.be/QaU94LY891M

    • just_another_person@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Not true. A ton of these little companies that do “push button cloud” use terraform versus vendor locked-in tools. This license change is just a play to force these companies to pay up, which is shitty.