OpenTofu
MPL-2.0 Linux Foundation Terraform fork; truly OSS IaC
DevOps / IaC · MPL-2.0 · 30.6k
Reviewed 2026-09-04 · last push 2026-10-21 · repo checked 2026-10-21
What's Good
MPL-2.0 under Linux Foundation / CNCF gravity. HCL-compatible with most Terraform providers/modules. Native state encryption shipped; community registry. Swap binary, tofu init — usually.
The Catch
Vs Terraform/Pulumi: license-first fork of Terraform 1.5-era lineage — not Pulumi programming-language IaC. Not HashiCorp Cloud/Enterprise features. Provider edge cases exist; verify before big migrations.
Verdict
MPL-2.0 Terraform-compatible IaC. The OSS license answer to BSL.
See also: Terraform
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