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terraform
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Ansible
Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your applications and systems easier to deploy and maintain. Automate everything from code deployment to network configuration to cloud management, in a language that approaches plain English, using SSH, with no agents to install on remote systems. https://docs.ansible.com.
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InfluxDB
InfluxDB high-performance time series database. Collect, organize, and act on massive volumes of high-resolution data to power real-time intelligent systems.
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infisical
Infisical is the open-source platform for secrets management, internal PKI, and SSH access.
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Nomad
Nomad is an easy-to-use, flexible, and performant workload orchestrator that can deploy a mix of microservice, batch, containerized, and non-containerized applications. Nomad is easy to operate and scale and has native Consul and Vault integrations.
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terragrunt
Terragrunt is a flexible orchestration tool that allows Infrastructure as Code written in OpenTofu/Terraform to scale.
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promptfoo
Test your prompts, agents, and RAGs. Red teaming, pentesting, and vulnerability scanning for LLMs. Compare performance of GPT, Claude, Gemini, Llama, and more. Simple declarative configs with command line and CI/CD integration.
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manifesto
The OpenTF Manifesto expresses concern over HashiCorp's switch of the Terraform license from open-source to the Business Source License (BSL) and calls for the tool's return to a truly open-source license.
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static-web-server
A cross-platform, high-performance and asynchronous web server for static files-serving. âš¡
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tenv
tenv is a versatile version manager for OpenTofu, Terraform, Terragrunt and Atmos, written in Go. Our tool simplifies the complexity of handling different versions of these powerful tools, ensuring developers and DevOps professionals can focus on what matters most - building and deploying efficiently. tenv is a successor of tofuenv and tfenv.
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- OpenTofu discussing provider and module packages from OCI registries
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Kubernetes and Container Portability: Navigating Multi-Cloud Flexibility
OpenTofu – An open-source fork of Terraform, allows deploying entire cloud environments using Infrastructure as Code
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Modern Infrastructure as Code: OpenTofu vs. Crossplane vs. Pulumi
OpenTofu emerged as a community-driven fork of HashiCorp Terraform following licensing changes. Now under the Linux Foundation with plans to join the CNCF, OpenTofu preserves the familiar HCL syntax while ensuring an open governance model.
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IBM Completes Acquisition of HashiCorp
Terraform is not OSS, it switched to a source-available license over a year ago.
OpenTofu[0] is the OSS fork though.
[0]: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu
Disclaimer: involved with OpenTofu
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How to Add Comments in Terraform Code
Note: New versions of Terraform are placed under the BUSL license, but everything created before version 1.5.x stays open-source. OpenTofu is an open-source version of Terraform that expands on Terraform's existing concepts and offerings. It is a viable alternative to HashiCorp's Terraform, being forked from Terraform version 1.5.6.
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Migrating from Terraform to OpenTofu
Install OpenTofu using your preferred package manager or download the binary from the OpenTofu releases page.
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It's Time to Switch to OpenTofu
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
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UV has a killer feature you should know about
I swear I'm not trolling: what do you not like about modern golang's dep management (e.g. go.mod and go.sum)?
I agree that the old days of "there are 15 dep managers, good luck" was high chaos. And those who do cutesy shit like using "replace" in their go.mod[1] is sus but as far as dx $(go get) that caches by default in $XDG_CACHE_DIR and uses $GOPROXY I think is great
1: https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/blob/v1.9.0/go.mod#L271
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Terraform Cookbook: Development Environment Recipe
It's time to grab our most essential infrastructure cooking utensil, our pan: the terraform CLI. This is the workhorse of our infrastructure kitchen – the pan we'll use to cook up all our infrastructure recipes. We'll use tenv to fetch and install the perfect pan for the job. If you wish, use Opentofu, which is an "more open" source altenative.
- What Happens to Relicensed Open Source Projects and Their Forks?
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opentofu/opentofu is an open source project licensed under Mozilla Public License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.
opentofu is marked as "self-hosted". This means that it can be used as a standalone application on its own.
The primary programming language of opentofu is Go.
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