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

  •  zagaberoo   ( @zagaberoo@beehaw.org ) English
    2•10 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