OpenTofu Has a Free API — The Open-Source Terraform Alternative

OpenTofu is the community-driven fork of Terraform, created after HashiCorp switched to a BSL license. It's 100% compatible with Terraform 1.5.x and fully open-source under MPL-2.0. Why OpenTofu? Truly open source — MPL-2.0 license, backed by Linux Foundation Drop-in replacement — compatible with existing Terraform code State encryption — built-in, not available in Terraform Community-driven — features decided by users, not a corporation Quick Start # Install (macOS) brew install opentofu # Install (Linux) curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1 .2 -fsSL https://get.opentofu.org/install-opentofu.sh | sh # Verify tofu --version Basic Configuration # main.tf terraform { required_providers { aws = { source = "hashicorp/aws" version = "~> 5.0" } } } provider "aws" { region = "us-east-1" } resource "aws_instance" "web" { ami = "ami-0c55b159cbfafe1f0" instance_type = "t3.micro" tags = { Name = "web-server" } } tofu init tofu plan tofu apply State Encryption (OpenTofu Exclusive!) terraform { encryption