Security News > 2023 > December > OpenTofu: Open-source alternative to Terraform

OpenTofu is an open-source alternative to Terraform's widely used Infrastructure as Code provisioning tool.

Previously named OpenTF, OpenTofu is an open and community-driven response to Terraform's recently announced license change from a Mozilla Public License v2.0 to a Business Source License v1.1, providing everyone with a reliable, open-source alternative under a neutral governance model.

Execution plans: OpenTofu has a "Planning" step where it generates an execution plan.

The execution plan shows what OpenTofu will do when you call apply.

Resource graph: OpenTofu builds a graph of all your resources and parallelizes creating and modifying any non-dependent resources.

With the previously mentioned execution plan and resource graph, you know exactly what OpenTofu will change and in what order, avoiding many possible human errors.

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https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/12/07/opentofu-open-source-alternative-to-terraform/