EVE-BRENNAN

Navigating Post-BSL Terraform: OpenTofu and Beyond for AWS Users

Room: Prawn Cocktail | Time: 10:10 am
Level: Advanced

In August 2023, HashiCorp’s controversial switch to the newly coined Business Source License (BSL) for Terraform ignited discussions in the AWS user community about the future of open source IaC software. This talk dives into the implications for those using Terraform to provision their AWS infrastructure and explores the most well known fork, OpenTofu. We’ll break down the BSL’s impact and take at the benefits and drawbacks of Terraform alternatives.

Eve Brennan
Cloud Engineer III at Business Insider
tags: open-source, terraform, IAC