OpenTofu
Community-driven, open-source fork of Terraform, created after HashiCorp moved Terraform to a non-open-source license in 2023.
- Actively maintained
- Foundation-backed
- Well documented
Overview
OpenTofu is a drop-in replacement for Terraform - same HCL configuration language, same provider ecosystem, same state management model - maintained as a Linux Foundation project under the MPL-2.0 license after HashiCorp relicensed Terraform away from its original open license. It aims to stay compatible with the Terraform ecosystem while guaranteeing the tool itself remains open source.
OpenTofu is a fit for teams that want infrastructure-as-code tooling under a license that stays open-source, a directly relevant alternative for anyone evaluating the existing Terraform entry in this catalog against its current licensing terms.
Why it's in this catalog
Catalog rating: ★★★☆☆ (3/5)
Community-governed fork of Terraform, notable mainly as the open-license alternative given Terraform's BUSL change.
- Mature
- Foundation-governed
- Categories
- DevOps
- Languages
- Go
- License
- MPL-2.0
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