HashiCorp Abandons Open Source for Business Source License
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Like many other companies, HashiCorp has dropped the open source approach that gave its products their start for the source-available Business Source License (BSL).
  • 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

  • Sibbo
    2•11 months ago

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

    • @thewitchofcalamariOPEnglish
      4•11 months ago

      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.orgEnglish
        2•11 months 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