RedHat and Hashicorp under IBM. Hmm, that doesn’t bode well for the future.
Terraform fork:
https://opentofu.org/https://opentofu.org/ is apparently the community fork of terraform
And its backed by the Linux Foundation! So it can survive things like Hashicorp’s silly attempt to claim copyright infringement.
Christ
hashicorp’s APIs will be right at home at IBM. Right along with HCL. not a fan of either but have been forced to use them. this might bode well for my future if a pending license change is coming.
Turns out that IBM is leading OpenTofu efforts. We might just be done here.
Also Pulumi is technically fucked too. Back to good old shell scripting boys
The bastards can never take away your shell script full of arcane and unreadable curl commands parsed by incomprehensible awk scripts!
Turns out that IBM is leading OpenTofu efforts.
IBM is in no way involved in OpenTofu. Afaik they are involved in OpenBao.
Source: I’m the technical lead of the OpenTofu project.
OpenTofu is under Linux Foundation stewardship, they can find another supporter.
HashiCorp provides a suite of tools intended to support the development and deployment of large-scale service-oriented software installations. Each tool is aimed at specific stages in the life cycle of a software application, with a focus on automation. Many have a plugin-oriented architecture in order to provide integration with third-party technologies and services.[16] Additional proprietary features for some of these tools are offered commercially and are aimed at enterprise customers.[17]
Can someone tell me what this actually means?
They provide tools that make it easier to automate large-scale deployments of servers and applications.
Imagine what happen when you bought a new computer. You’ll install an os, then install all apps you need, copy over all data you need, etc. Now imagine if you have 100 of new computers. The tools hashicorp made basically enable you to create a recipe to perform all this operation over a fleet of servers.
Instead of dealing with proprietary rest APIs to manage every third party service you use, you can use a declarative, idempotent format to define infrastructure that’s compatible with all of them
Damn, iirc someone (forgot who) actually called it at the beginning of terraform debacle, though it was redhat instead of ibm, but close enough.
IBM owns Red Hat
Well, Redhat is owned by IBM now so basically spot on
Fffffffffffuuuuuuuu
I know people hear Hashicorp and instantly think Terraform, but Vault is the real crown jewel here.
Long live OpenBao
So let me get this straight: Hashicorp gets private equity’d, changes its license to be a rentseeker against Amazon and Google, and now sells itself to the OG rentseeker.
What the fuck happened to open source?
The kiss of death
RIP terraform