The ruthless forking of Terraform

Terraform infrastructure-as-code tool recently switched to a BSL license. As a result, it was forked into a new project called OpenTF. Let's look at open-source licensing and find out why this drama occurred.

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🔗 Resources

- OpenTF Manifesto https://github.com/opentffoundation/manifesto
- Hashicorp announcement https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/hashicorp-adopts-business-source-license
- Terraform in 100 Seconds https://youtu.be/tomUWcQ0P3k

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🔖 Topics Covered

- Why did Terraform get Forked?
- Alternatives to terraform
- What is Infrastructure-as-code (IaC)
- AWS Terraform
- What is the true definition of Open Source software?