I'm currently migrating our infrastructure to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and it's been a pretty interesting experience so far—it even feels kind of fun! I started with Terraform, but I decided to switch to OpenTofu because I like the idea of community-driven development. We're using the command line, saving our state files in Azure Storage, collaborating as a team, and employing git for version control.
My question is: What advantages does Terraform offer over OpenTofu if we're primarily working locally through the command line and utilizing tf files?
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Honestly, the difference between Terraform and OpenTofu isn’t that vast. Most of the new features Terraform rolls out are geared towards their paid Terraform Cloud service. I've been using OpenTofu for a year after switching from Terraform, and I haven’t really noticed any markdowns in functionality—nothing that makes me miss Terraform, to be honest. If you’re not planning to toss money at Hashicorp for their cloud service in the future, I say go ahead and switch to OpenTofu without hesitation.
Thanks for the reassurance! I had seen a mix of reactions online and they helped solidify my decision. Honestly, I can’t see why I’d pay Hashicorp, and the popularity argument doesn’t seem strong enough to convince me either.