#HashiCorp changes Terraform's license to BSL

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solemn jolt
stone remnant
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Idm them changing the other hashicorp products like nomad consul etc for concerns like Elastic had but I don't know about terraform

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Anyways sad to see them going this way and hopefully they will change their mind on at least Terraform

solemn jolt
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yeah, sucks

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even tho I'm for sure we're not competing and our use is still acceptable under their license, might plan to switch to full aws cloudformation

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which I don't really want to do since it means getting off of cloudflare and fully integrating to aws services

stone remnant
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there's also CDK but again you end up being fully invested in aws tools

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terraform is nice because it inegrates extremely well across providers

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there's also that (dont remember name) iac thingy

solemn jolt
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what's the difference between that and cf? just language?

stone remnant
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cf is "just yaml" isnt it

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cdk is constructs so you say that you want an S3 bucket a lambda and a gateway

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instead of I want 153 lines of yaml that happens to create said infra

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cdk is also just typescript code so you have full autocomplete on everything

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its pretty sick but terraform "just works" imo

ruby thorn
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It should be fine to use it to manage your own infra, you're just not allowed to offer your own terraform cloud solutions

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GitLab offers hosted Terraform state but it's available on free tiers, so I'd assume it's not affecting them either

odd condor
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license is vague tho, they can just claim "oh no this is competitive, shut it down"

dire sparrow
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But love to see everyone starring it

fallen hull
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"terraform" is an instruction set that gets interpreted and bridge the gap to affect resources ultimately by communicating with providers.

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Providers are interfaced with by means of an abstract API.