Good example of an open source project that gets forked after it changed its licensing to be non-OSS. The new project will apply to join Linux Foundation and then CNCF.
All this takes place very much in a business environment (Hashicorp competitors are first to commit efforts to the fork), but this move should keep the project open for everyone.
It's official: the Terraform community has split in two, with a new open source fork coming out.
I honestly believe this is the best move, and that it will result in a much stronger terraform ecosystem. I am really excited in the number of open source projects and advocates getting behind OpenTF. I also think that going towards a foundation is going to be huge for OpenTF, as it means we'll have an open and community friendly project.
CAPTCHAs are now utterly useless, hundreds sign the #OpenTF Manifesto to keep #Terraform open source, @collinsworth writes down all the things you forgot (or never knew) because of #Reactjs, Mike Seidle shared some quick-but-powerful advice on building new #software features & @erlend urges new #opensource projects to join #Mastodon.
Some #Terraform customers, developers, and companies aren't happy with HashiCorp's new license, so they're considering open-sourcing Terraform with a fork.
The amount of information out there about how to migrate #terraform managed #AWS infra off of a personal master account is too damn low.
I figured out how to make an organization, create an OU for the GDB, and then create an account for managing the GDB inside that OU... but I don't know what to do from there.
How do I migrate my TF state over to that account? How do I create permissive sets to ensure that account can only manage GDB resources? How do I attach those resources to that OU?
I can definitely see #SystemInitiative becoming a serious alternative to #Terraform. It's been fun to watch this very promising #opensource project take shape over discord. Things are moving along very fast!
I signed up for #systeminit, the new open open source #Terraform alternative. Looking forward to working through the tutorials. That legalise is quite the first impression, and I'm not yet sure how I mean that, but it looks promising! #DevOps#opensource
@sboger I feel like on the face of it, #SystemInitiative takes #Terraform and then fixes a lot of the stuff I don't like about it, and then gives it a fancy VMWare vRealize style GUI, except that I don't immediately hate it.
HashiCorp's recent change to BSL licensing for Terraform[1] and the rest of their product suite is not as big as the RHEL debacle but certainly seems to be generating similar waves. Now there's the OpenTF Manifesto [2] that's arguing for a fork of Terraform if HashiCorp doesn't relent.
I get that HashiCorp needs to make money, but it does seem a bit misjudged to do it this way.