Re:OpenTF renames itself to OpenTofu
by carlhjerpe on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @06:39AM
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The target audience for a IaC project is probably people who know what IaC is. Or even people who know what "infrastructure" and "code" are, separately.
Re:OpenTF renames itself to OpenTofu
by simbolit on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @06:46AM
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But a person who knows what "infrastructure" is likely thinks of roads and power lines and sewage pipes. A "data center", which is what "infrastructure" roughly means in this case, isn't exactly the prototypical example of "infrastructure", or is it?
Re:OpenTF renames itself to OpenTofu
by Mashimo on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @06:53AM
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If that is the case, why does the upstream project website tell what it does?
Re:OpenTF renames itself to OpenTofu
by yjftsjthsd-h on Wednesday September 20, 2023 @12:43PM
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Right now, most of its target audience already knows exactly what terraform is and why they're abandoning it, although I agree that pivoting to explaining independently of that is a good idea
Edit: I don't want to sound dismissive, so let me explain the difference. Anyone coming to the website will be using a computer of some kind, and even if they for some weird reason don't, the verb "compute" does give a hint at what a computer might be. None of this is true for "infrastructure-as-code".