OpenTofu is an open-source alternative to Terraform's widely used Infrastructure as Code provisioning tool.
Previously named OpenTF, OpenTofu is an open and community-driven response to Terraform's recently announced license change from a Mozilla Public License v2.0 to a Business Source License v1.1, providing everyone with a reliable, open-source alternative under a neutral governance model.
Infrastructure as Code: Infrastructure is described using a high-level configuration syntax.
This allows a blueprint of your datacenter to be versioned and treated as you would any other code.
Infrastructure can be shared and re-used.
The execution plan shows what OpenTofu will do when you call apply.
This lets you avoid any surprises when OpenTofu manipulates infrastructure.
Resource graph: OpenTofu builds a graph of all your resources and parallelizes creating and modifying any non-dependent resources.
Because of this, it builds infrastructure as efficiently as possible, and operators get insight into dependencies in their infrastructure.
Change automation: Complex changesets can be applied to your infrastructure with minimal human interaction.
With the previously mentioned execution plan and resource graph, you know exactly what OpenTofu will change and in what order, avoiding many possible human errors.
With broad support from industry leaders like Harness, Gruntwork, Spacelift, env0, Scalr, Digger, Terrateam, Massdriver, Terramate, and others, OpenTofu has received formal pledges spanning 140+ organizations and 600+ individuals.
It will ensure its codebase's continued development and availability and has a starting commitment of a minimum of 18 full-time developers over at least the next five years.
This Cyber News was published on www.helpnetsecurity.com. Publication date: Thu, 07 Dec 2023 04:43:05 +0000