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Terraform, Vault, Nomad etc by HashiCorp moving away from Open Source (thenewstack.io)

submitted 11 months ago by thewitchofcalamari@bookwormstory.social to c/technology@beehaw.org

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HashiCorp is moving its products previously licensed as Open Source away from it to Business Source License (BSL) moving forward
Terraform is a popular Infrastructure as Code tool used for provisioning cloud resources like AWS, Azure among others
Terraform version 1.5.5 and earlier are still open source
there is a push for a community maintained open source fork if this decision is not reversed, OpenTF

Gruntwork response on the problem with BSL

https://blog.gruntwork.io/the-future-of-terraform-must-be-open-ab0b9ba65bca?gi=be31818bcbaf
Gruntwork is a creator of the tool Terragrunt which is an open source wrapper around Terraform to provide some additional tools for it

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[-] jherazob@beehaw.org 17 points 11 months ago

We were considering Vault, I guess we'll look into alternatives now, are there any decent Free Software ones in the first place?

[-] thewitchofcalamari@bookwormstory.social 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

ive not done secrets management before but i came across this list on hackernews, a few non-cloud ones use open source license https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37133054#37151218

but another user there have mentioned that while most of them integrate with Kubernetes and AWS, short lived DB credentials are not in any of those listed