Terraform fork OpenTF renamed and relocated as OpenTofu

OpenTF – the fork of HashiCorp's Terraform infrastructure management project – is no more. The software has been renamed OpenTofu and placed under the oversight of The Linux Foundation. Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, is set to make the announcement during his keynote at the Open Source Summit Europe in …

[ChoHag]

> Among those voicing support for OpenTofu is German insurance biz Allianz. "In our organization, open source technologies underpin various mission-critical solutions and have yielded significant business benefits," said Mike Sutton, CIO of Allianz, in a prepared statement. "Our recent move to adopt OpenTofu for Infrastructure as Code aligns with this strategy."

Vocal support is all very well but does it come with money?

18 full time developers aren't cheap (unless they are, which would be worse).

[demon driver]

"Vocal support is all very well but does it come with money?" - why? That would, of course, diminish those "significant business benefits".

[matjaggard]

Actually the developer time had already been pledged, support from big businesses is exactly what the companies offering that time are in need of to prove their investment is a good plan.

[Anonymous Coward]

Really?

"The Linux Foundation, according to Stadil, is also expected to help with security governance – to deal with the possibility that a contributor might add malicious code to a pull request in order to subvert the software.

"They provide a good framework to make sure that the code that gets accepted to the product is sufficiently reviewed and reviewed by trustworthy people, he explained."

Really? Didn't do a right good job on this did they...

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/password-stealing-linux-malware-served-for-3-years-and-no-one-noticed/

[Stu J]

Re: Really?

How is that _anything_ to do with the Linux Foundation?

[matjaggard]

Re: Really?

What nonsense, presumably Microsoft are to blame for every bad piece of software you download on a Windows machine? Are Google to blame if you visit a bad website using Chrome?

[Anonymous Coward]

"Many are called but Tofu answer"

Often attributed to WC, but actually it was Zippy the Pinhead who said it.

[Fruit and Nutcase]

Tofu

‘Guardian-reading, tofu-eating wokerati’

‘The Register-reading, openTofu-running wokerati’

[Adam Connelly]

Re: Tofu

Wish I could upvote this more than once.

[Bitbeisser]

Re: Tofu

soft, firm or extra-firm? :P