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Terraform, Vault, Nomad etc by HashiCorp moving away from Open Source (thenewstack.io)
submitted 1 year ago by thewitchofcalamari@bookwormstory.social to c/technology@beehaw.org
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  • HashiCorp is moving its products previously licensed as Open Source away from it to Business Source License (BSL) moving forward
  • Terraform is a popular Infrastructure as Code tool used for provisioning cloud resources like AWS, Azure among others
  • Terraform version 1.5.5 and earlier are still open source
  • there is a push for a community maintained open source fork if this decision is not reversed, OpenTF

Gruntwork response on the problem with BSL

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[–] Sibbo@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not that I'd know much about this, but can't you easily replace terraform with some script that remotely installs NixOS?

[–] thewitchofcalamari@bookwormstory.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

i dont think theyre equivalent tools since Terraform is used for things like creating cloud VMs with the selected OS image, configuring subnets and route tables among other things which i dont believe NixOS is meant for

[–] zagaberoo@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Terraform is great automation, but it really shines over scripts in a few ways:

  • intrinsic documentation for your infrastructure
  • much less brittle to differences in the initial state
  • changing your setup later doesn't require any new script logic, just a simple config change
  • much better support for collaborative editing