Linux Foundation announced that the OpenTofu project is coming under its wing. Previously code-named OpenTF, OpenTofu aims to create an open, community-driven successor to the Hashicorp Terraform infrastructure-as-code technology, under a neutral governance model.
Infrastructure-as-code enables organizations to define how data center infrastructure should be configured and deployed in a repeatable, programmatic approach.
In recent years, Terraform has become widely adopted for managing infrastructure deployments in cloud environments. However, in early August Hashicorp changed Terraform from the open source Mozilla Public License v2.0 to a business source license raised concerns within the open software community about its openness. OpenTF, now rebranded as OpenTofu, is the community response, with the goal of ensuring continued development and availability of an open source infrastructure as code solution for data centers.
“OpenTofu is a drop-in replacement for Terraform,” Jim Zemlin, executive director of the Linux Foundation said in a keynote at the event. “It’s open source, it is neutrally housed at the Linux Foundation and hits that sweet spot of open source and open governance.”
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