Terraform, Vault, Nomad etc by HashiCorp moving away from Open Source
Terraform, Vault, Nomad etc by HashiCorp moving away from Open Source
thenewstack.io HashiCorp Abandons Open Source for Business Source License
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
- https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-terraform-must-be-open-ab0b9ba65bca?gi=be31818bcbaf
- Gruntwork is a creator of the tool Terragrunt which is an open source wrapper around Terraform to provide some additional tools for it
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Not that I'd know much about this, but can't you easily replace terraform with some script that remotely installs NixOS?
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
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
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