It's Time to Switch to OpenTofu

1. registry

   1 18 353 9.8 Go

   The all-new opentofu.org registry! (by opentofu)

   

   I've been waiting for https://github.com/opentofu/registry/pull/824 ("Revert commit that removed Russian providers") to be resolved, but it seems to have stalled.

   Open source does not work as I envisioned, I guess.

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3. hcl

   2 47 5,410 7.4 Go

   HCL is the HashiCorp configuration language.

   

   HCL is Hashicorp Configuration Language: https://github.com/hashicorp/hcl.

   It's basically a DSL used by a bunch of Hashicorp products.

4. opentofu

   3 78 24,695 9.7 Go

   OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your cloud infrastructure.

   

   OpenTofu with v1.9 [0] has for_each for providers, something that HashiCorp blocked me on their GitHub, because I kept insisting for them to implement it and they kept giving excuses! One of my points there they didn't like is that instead of improving Terraform and Terraform Cloud so that it can AT LEAST run their own CDKTF, they invested time in GUI development and other useless stuff.

   They also implemented the proprietary Terraform Stacks, which only work in their overpriced product now rebranded to the ridiculous HCP Terraform!

   So, kudos to OpenTofu, not only is it free and fast-moving, but it now has unique features, which we were begging HashiCorp for during the years and they neglected even requests from paying customers!

   Another unique OpenTofu feature is that you can use variables in places you couldn't with Terraform, for example, in the backend config. Of course, HashiCorp didn't care about that, because you don't need that if you use their paid product!

   I totally understand that HashiCorp needs to make money, but they switch to BUSL, because their competitors such as Spacelift, Scalr, env0, and others were offering better and sometimes cheaper offering. Yeah, "sometimes", because some of them came out to be more expensive than even HCP Terraform, unfortunately.

   The switch to "terraforming under influence (of RUM)" that HashiCorp made is a sign of disoriented greed! Basically, it pushes you NOT to use Terraform. For example, I terraformed GitHub repos. So, after their switch of pricing model, I had to pay for every GitHub repository label, for thousands and thousands of niceties, which with the RUM (Resource Under Management) turned every label to costs us money, which easily accumulated to tens of thousands of dollars!

   [0]: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/tag/v1.9.0

5. sst

   4 193 23,233 10.0 TypeScript

   Build full-stack apps on your own infrastructure.

   

   I found https://sst.dev/ to be a developer friendly experience. It is built on top of Pulumi.

   I just pay the AWS costs under my own account and nothing else.

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