Linux-Foundation

August of last year, Hashicorp decided to move its products away from open source licenses to a source-available license with fuzzy parameters on its use in production. Shortly afterwards, the community forked Terraform as OpenTF and then it was endorsed and picked up by the Linux Foundation as OpenTofu. Now the project is ready to declare a stable release that it says is a production-ready “drop-in replacement for Terraform.” OpenTofu isn’t a direct clone of Terraform, however....

In just a few weeks I’m going to be dusting off the slide clicker and giving two talks at Open Source Summit North America. I’ll be giving one talk on databases and containers, and another talk about working with text on Linux using Vim and other tools. Kind of a 101 for people who might want to delve into some command line magic for working with text. Are Containers Ready for Production Databases?...