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Fork in the road for Terraform?

Oxide and Friends · 22 Aug 2023 · 1h 20m · Episode 24

What this episode covers

Josh Padnick, Malcolm Matalka, and Cory O'Daniel, founders of GruntWerk, Terraform Cloud alternatives, and early-stage startups respectively, discuss the OpenTF project formed in response to HashiCorp's decision to relicense Terraform under the Business Source License (BSL). They explain that the vague BSL terms create unacceptable legal risk for customers and competitors, prompting a consortium of former rivals to collaborate on an open-source fork. The group details their rapid organization, the OpenTF manifesto, and their strategy to place the project under the CNCF to ensure governance and community trust, aiming to preserve the social contract of open source infrastructure.

Most relevant to

early-stage companies

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
HashiCorp, GruntWerk, Cockroach, Oxide Computer Company
Products
Terraform, OpenTF, Terraform Cloud, Vault, Jenkins, Node.js, ZFS, DTrace
Also
CNCF

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