Ditched Terraform for OpenTofu. Why Devs Everywhere Are Making the Same Move (cheatsheet included)
1. When infrastructure felt stable (until it wasn’t)
Picture this: Imagine yourself immersed in the complexity of IaC, struggling to complete a seemingly straightforward Friday deployment. Your Terraform plan is clean, your pipeline’s green, and the weekend looks promising. Then the Slack message hits:
“Hey, anyone see this Terraform licensing update? Are we still allowed to use it?”
Cue the existential dread.
It started back in 2023, but in 2025, the ripples are still hitting infra teams hard. Terraform served as a reliable tool for infrastructure-as-code development. It didn’t ask much of you, and in return, it delivered reproducible infra without drama. You didn’t need to…
https://medium.com/@dev_tips/ditched-terraform-for-opentofu-why-devs-everywhere-are-making-the-same-move-cheatsheet-included-98da3a8956c8