OpenTofu 1.7 introduced client-side state encryption—a feature the community requested from Terraform for years without success. For us, it solved a compliance problem that previously required workarounds.
The Problem Terraform state contains secrets. Database passwords, API keys, and sensitive …
HashiCorp’s August 2023 license change sent shockwaves through the infrastructure-as-code community. Terraform moved from MPL to BSL, and within weeks, OpenTofu emerged as an open-source fork. We had decisions to make.
The Problem The Business Source License isn’t open source. …
Terraform state is deceptively simple until you have multiple teams, dozens of repositories, and hundreds of resources. Then it becomes your biggest operational challenge.
The Problem Local state files don’t scale. The moment two people run terraform apply simultaneously, you have a race …