OpenTerraform – an MPL fork of Terraform after HashiCorp's license change

• digger

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  Digger is an open source IaC orchestration tool. Digger allows you to run IaC in your existing CI pipeline ⚡️

  

We are in some sense a competitor too, alongside Spacelift, Env0, Scalr and a few others. Our product is built differently though, Digger is orchestrating terraform jobs in your existing CI instead of taking over the whole CI stack and effectively duplicating it just to run terraform. We built it this way almost by accident; our original product was very different (think "heroku-like UI for AWS" that generated and ran terraform on the server) and this is how we arrived at what Digger is now. Luckily we don't seem to be affected by the licensing change as we neither embed nor distribute any of hashicorp's code (it's on the user to set up the right version of it in say GH Actions).

https://github.com/diggerhq/digger

Anyways, fully agree that if you have a great product, you don't need to make such moves. We designed our product the way we did purely out of technical considerations - it didn't seem to make any sense to duplicate the CI stack. But it looks like this whole idea behind Terraform Cloud of having an "infra-specific CI" was driven exclusively by commercial interest. You can charge per minute! You can charge even more per resource! Now it's catching up with Hashi; so they have to make such defensive moves. If the product made sense technically, if it was designed the way someone would design it with no commercial considerations whatsoever, they wouldn't have to make such moves.

• open-terraform

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  Discontinued Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. This is an open-source fork of Hashicorp's Terraform that keeps the MPL license, following Hashicorp's annoutcing change of license to BSL. The fork is created and maintained by Digger.dev, an open-source CI runner for IaC.

  

• InfluxDB

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  Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.

  

• Pulumi

  178 19,705 9.9 Go

  Pulumi - Infrastructure as Code in any programming language. Build infrastructure intuitively on any cloud using familiar languages 🚀

  

• Grafana

  379 60,395 10.0 TypeScript

  The open and composable observability and data visualization platform. Visualize metrics, logs, and traces from multiple sources like Prometheus, Loki, Elasticsearch, InfluxDB, Postgres and many more.

  

One should wonder why companies love "open source" software so much and despise "free software" even more.

On the matter, Grafana has relicensed most of its software to AGPLv3 (eg: https://github.com/grafana/grafana/blob/main/LICENSE)

• hcl-lang

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  Schema and decoder to be used as building blocks for an HCL2-based language server.

  

no, it and a ton of other things in their GH org are still MPL (for now): https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl-lang/blob/main/LICENSE including, confusingly https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary/blob/main/LICENSE which I would have thought would have fallen into the same "but AWS gonna steal our shit" fearmongering as Nomad, did to say nothing of the future in which AWS offers Managed Vagrant™ :eyeroll:

• boundary

  2 3,782 9.9 Go

  Boundary enables identity-based access management for dynamic infrastructure.

  

no, it and a ton of other things in their GH org are still MPL (for now): https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl-lang/blob/main/LICENSE including, confusingly https://github.com/hashicorp/boundary/blob/main/LICENSE which I would have thought would have fallen into the same "but AWS gonna steal our shit" fearmongering as Nomad, did to say nothing of the future in which AWS offers Managed Vagrant™ :eyeroll:

• terraform

  500 41,178 9.9 Go

  Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

  

> I know most HN commentators are thinking about Terraform, but I think this change was done with Consul and Vault in mind.

Clearly Terraform was also in mind, since Terraform is now under the BUSL: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/main/LICENSE

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• atlantis

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  Terraform Pull Request Automation

  

atlantis would be fine, see this comment, https://github.com/runatlantis/atlantis/issues/3663#issuecom...

• otf

  12 470 0.0 Go

  Discontinued An open source alternative to terraform enterprise.

I wonder if a non commercial Terraform Cloud "offering" like https://github.com/leg100/otf is "competing" with Hashicorp...

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