Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
by thedougd on Friday August 25, 2023 @11:55AM
(#37263162)
If the maintainers can keep a good throughout of pull request approvals, I think there’s a good likelihood that OpenTF could outpace Terraform in capability. Terraform, IMO, has benefitted significantly from having some very smart people at the helm. Most recently I’ve been impressed with the declarative mapping of imperative actions including import, state moves, and more. These things required very carefully coordination, especially in large active configurations, and are now quite simple and safe.
[ Parent
| on HN ]
Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
by fishnchips on Friday August 25, 2023 @12:25PM
(#37263563)
> very smart people at the helm
Hear, hear. We would love to see them join forces with OpenTF.
One has to wonder how much collaboration was prevented by having Hashicorp refuse to hear their users or accept PRs. At some point, opensource or not, people just stop bothering.
Was thinking the same. Would be great if they provided more "experimental" features with a flag or ENV. Then the default cli could be the "comparability mode". Cheers and good luck to the project!
People could have forked terraform before too.
It’s being forked only now because there is big money at stake.
I’m gonna wear my cynical hat and say: it never was about collaboration.
Seriously: people are falling for the collaboration meme. Isn’t anybody wondering “why now?”
Why not a year ago, why not a year in the future?
Re:OpenTF Announces Fork of Terraform
by RealStickman_ on Friday August 25, 2023 @05:23PM
(#37267226)
A year ago most people probably wouldn't have known or cared about a small new fork and I don't think it would have gotten the community support OpenTF has now.