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[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (28 children)

Idk if its just me but these sort of frameworks seem the make it intentionally hard to figure out wtf they are for.

What is OpenTofu? OpenTofu is a Terraform fork, created as an initiative of Gruntwork, Spacelift, Harness, Env0, Scalr, and others, in response to HashiCorp’s switch from an open-source license to the BUSL

None of these names mean anything to me.

The entire FAQ doesn't spend a syllable saying what it is for, except that its like Terraform. Which is a bad name to google.

After searching around, it seems to be some vaugely defined devops/cloud management thing.

[–] darkevilmac 40 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understand the concern but I think you're just not really in the target demographic for the project. Terraform is a very well known infrastructure-as-code tool, and the other companies listed are suppliers of commercial products that build on top of what Terraform provides.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But i wouldn't know i guess.

Thats what irks me. Say some smaller project is taking off and needs a better scaling environment. I will not find out about any of this open source alternative, ever.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

But how deep should these explanations go? Does every mention of Terraform also require an explanation of "infrastructure" (in the IT sense) and "code"? "Cloud"? It's all unexplained definitions all the way down, unless you write a book before the article. A certain level of audience knowledge is always required.

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