OpenTofu Has a Free Terraform Fork That's Truly Open Source

When HashiCorp switched Terraform to BSL (not open source), the community forked it. OpenTofu is a drop-in replacement — same HCL, same providers, same workflow — but backed by the Linux Foundation and genuinely open source. What OpenTofu Gives You for Free Drop-in Terraform replacement — same syntax, same providers, same state format Client-side state encryption — encrypt secrets in state files (Terraform can't do this) Linux Foundation governance — truly open source, not vendor-controlled Early variable/locals evaluation — use variables in backend configuration Provider-defined functions — extend HCL with custom functions from providers All Terraform providers work — AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, etc. Quick Start # Install brew install opentofu # Or download directly curl -fsSL https://get.opentofu.org/install-opentofu.sh | sh # Replace terraform command alias terraform = tofu Migration From Terraform (2 Minutes) # In your existing Terraform project: tofu init # Downloads providers (s