OpenTofu Has a Free Infrastructure as Code Tool — The Open-Source Terraform Fork

Terraform Changed Its License. OpenTofu Was Born. In 2023, HashiCorp changed Terraform to a BSL license. The community forked it into OpenTofu — fully open source, Linux Foundation backed. OpenTofu: Infrastructure as Code for Everyone OpenTofu is a drop-in replacement for Terraform. Same HCL language, same providers, same workflow. Drop-In Replacement # Replace terraform with tofu alias terraform = tofu # Everything works the same tofu init tofu plan tofu apply Your existing Terraform configs work with zero changes. Define Infrastructure # main.tf resource "aws_instance" "web" { ami = "ami-0c55b159cbfafe1f0" instance_type = "t3.micro" tags = { Name = "web-server" } } resource "aws_s3_bucket" "assets" { bucket = "my-app-assets" } resource "aws_rds_instance" "db" { engine = "postgres" engine_version = "16" instance_class = "db.t3.micro" allocated_storage = 20 } tofu plan # Preview changes tofu apply # Create infrastructure tofu destroy # Tear it all down Why Infrastructure as Code 1. Ver