Who is this dragon company and what weight does their opinion hold anyway? Most of these reasons to not fork are pretty half-baked.
> A schism like this would be devastating for the tool’s adoption
Except when it isn’t, like in the case of LibreOffice. Terraform is already by far the most popular in its category. It’s pretty obvious that OpenTF will instantly be the superior choice by the merits of the license alone. HashiCorp will have the support of one company while OpenTF will be backed by multiple companies.
Cloud providers like AWS will have an automatic legal incentive to contribute to their providers as a part of the OpenTF project instead of HashiCorp. HashiCorp will be alone on an island.
Other parts of this article basically just say “don’t worry, HashiCorp won’t sue you.” Sorry, that’s not as good as free and open source.
Yes, HashiCorp is moving too slowly. That’s why they have to use the Oracle army of lawyers method, because most of the value in Terraform Cloud can be replicated in a weekend with a Gitlab template. Print the terraform plan out to the MR comments, use Gitlab’s variable management for secrets, manage your state in the backend of your choice, and that’s pretty much it.
Also, the terraform private registry gives you zero benefit over using repository URLs with references to tags/commits/branches. Yet another thing you don’t need terraform cloud for.
> A schism like this would be devastating for the tool’s adoption
Except when it isn’t, like in the case of LibreOffice. Terraform is already by far the most popular in its category. It’s pretty obvious that OpenTF will instantly be the superior choice by the merits of the license alone. HashiCorp will have the support of one company while OpenTF will be backed by multiple companies.
Cloud providers like AWS will have an automatic legal incentive to contribute to their providers as a part of the OpenTF project instead of HashiCorp. HashiCorp will be alone on an island.
Other parts of this article basically just say “don’t worry, HashiCorp won’t sue you.” Sorry, that’s not as good as free and open source.
Yes, HashiCorp is moving too slowly. That’s why they have to use the Oracle army of lawyers method, because most of the value in Terraform Cloud can be replicated in a weekend with a Gitlab template. Print the terraform plan out to the MR comments, use Gitlab’s variable management for secrets, manage your state in the backend of your choice, and that’s pretty much it.
Also, the terraform private registry gives you zero benefit over using repository URLs with references to tags/commits/branches. Yet another thing you don’t need terraform cloud for.