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OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform

OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform

Posted Aug 26, 2023 19:54 UTC (Sat) by willmo (subscriber, #82093)
Parent article: OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform

This comment is especially illuminating (quoting a transcript of an interview with the HashiCorp CEO): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37271430


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OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform

Posted Aug 30, 2023 5:22 UTC (Wed) by riking (subscriber, #95706) [Link]

Bryan Cantrill on the podcast this Monday: "if your business plan includes the word 'malicious' in it anywhere, [I don't think I want to interact with you] [...] and definitely don't say it on a recorded medium"

OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform

Posted Aug 31, 2023 6:16 UTC (Thu) by nilsmeyer (guest, #122604) [Link]

It sounds to me like their original idea to make a profit was more about making money off the providers instead of the users? The sales pitch being that users who prefer Terraform would only use a cloud provider with good support in Terraform. I think most cloud providers probably prefer their customers not use Terraform and instead rely on their proprietary solutions (e.g. Cloudformation on AWS).


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