OpenTofu
Open-source infrastructure as code tool
OpenTofu is a community-driven, open-source fork of Terraform for declaratively provisioning cloud and on-premise infrastructure. It is a Linux Foundation project with a drop-in compatible CLI.
Key features
- Drop-in Terraform replacement
- Declarative infrastructure
- Large provider ecosystem
- Community-governed
Strengths
- Released under the MPL-2.0 license
- Mature project with 29.7k GitHub stars
- Written in Go
- Tiny footprint — runs in 256 MB RAM
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