Terraform competitor OpenTofu joins the CNCF in sandbox status
The open source IaC tool OpenTofu is joining the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. The majority of the OpenTofu community voted in favor of this.
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- Manuel Masiero
The Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tool OpenTofu has been a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) since April 23. The CNCF has classified OpenTofu as a sandbox project by default.
OpenTofu is a fork of the IaC tool Terraform and was brought to life by the decision of developer HashiCorp to change Terraform's license model from the Mozilla Public License (MPL-2.0) to the Business Source License (BSL-1.1). This is controversial in the open-source community and repeatedly leads to disputes, currently with the messaging server NATS. Companies are switching to BSL to protect certain business areas, such as managed services.
With the fork OpenTofu, the IaC tool is still available under an open-source license and has been under the auspices of the Linux Foundation, to which the CNCF also belongs, since 2023.
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Numerous supporters
OpenTofu is mainly backed by the companies Harness, Gruntwork, Spacelift, Env0 and Scair, who each want to support the project for at least five years with a total of nineteen full-time developers (FTEs, Full Time Equivalent). According to the OpenTofu website, the list of supporters currently includes 163 companies and 791 individuals.
The OpenTofu source code is available to interested users in release 1.9.1 in the public GitHub repository. According to the official roadmap, the development of version 1.10.0 is already 75 percent complete.
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