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Re:OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Prov... by nikolay on Wednesday May 01, 2024 @07:45PM (#40231016)
None of these are a replacement of Terraform Cloud (recently rebranded to HCP Terraform). For example, when you create a PR, it could affect multiple workspaces. The new experimental version of TFC/TFE (I refuse to call it HCP!) implements Stacks, which is something like a workflow, and links one workspace output to other workspace inputs. None of the open-source solutions, including the paid Digger [0], support this - only the paid one, such as Spacelift [1] (which is the closest to TFC if you ask me). Having a monorepo of Terraform is a common design pattern, so, if I change an embedded module, it could trigger changes it many workspaces. As far as I know, Atlantis [2] can't really help in this case.

By the way, the reason I singled-out Spacelift is due to its quality, and the great Terraform provider it has. Scalr [3], for example, has a really low-quality Terraform provider. I extensively use the hashicorp/tfe provider to manage TFC itself.

[0]: https://digger.dev/

[1]: https://spacelift.io/

[2]: https://www.runatlantis.io/

[3]: https://www.scalr.com/

Re:OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Prov... by SebastianStadil on Thursday May 02, 2024 @10:57AM (#40237046)
Hey Nikolay, thanks for sharing your experience with Scalr. When did you last evaluate the provider? afaik it covers everything, but perhaps we missed something?
Re:OpenTofu 1.7.0 is out with State Encryption, Dynamic Prov... by nikolay on Friday May 03, 2024 @01:58PM (#40250427)
Right before our TFC renewal, i.e. between September and October 2023. I will try to recollect the details and will share them with you.