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The Terraform vs OpenTofu Debate - Why "Just Switch" Is Bad Advice
HashiCorp's license change and IBM's $6.4B acquisition created the "you must migrate" narrative—but 70% of teams using Terraform in-house aren't legally affected. Jordan and Alex challenge the binary thinking with Fidelity's 50,000 state file migration case study, a three-factor decision framework, and the truth nobody talks about: migration is 90% organizational change management, not technology.
In this episode:
- 70% of teams using Terraform in-house are unaffected by BSL license restrictions, yet face strategic vendor lock-in risk with IBM's $6.4B acquisition
- Fidelity migrated 50,000 state files managing 4M resources in 2 quarters—technical migration is trivial, organizational change management is the challenge (6 months to 70% completion)
- OpenTofu 1.7+ delivers native state encryption after 5+ years of Terraform community requests going unfulfilled—for compliance-heavy industries (finance, healthcare, government), this alone justifies migration
Perfect for senior platform engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers with 5+ years experience managing infrastructure-as-code at scale.
Episode URL: https://platformengineeringplaybook.com/podcasts/00032-terraform-opentofu-debate
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By vibesreHashiCorp's license change and IBM's $6.4B acquisition created the "you must migrate" narrative—but 70% of teams using Terraform in-house aren't legally affected. Jordan and Alex challenge the binary thinking with Fidelity's 50,000 state file migration case study, a three-factor decision framework, and the truth nobody talks about: migration is 90% organizational change management, not technology.
In this episode:
- 70% of teams using Terraform in-house are unaffected by BSL license restrictions, yet face strategic vendor lock-in risk with IBM's $6.4B acquisition
- Fidelity migrated 50,000 state files managing 4M resources in 2 quarters—technical migration is trivial, organizational change management is the challenge (6 months to 70% completion)
- OpenTofu 1.7+ delivers native state encryption after 5+ years of Terraform community requests going unfulfilled—for compliance-heavy industries (finance, healthcare, government), this alone justifies migration
Perfect for senior platform engineers, SREs, DevOps engineers with 5+ years experience managing infrastructure-as-code at scale.
Episode URL: https://platformengineeringplaybook.com/podcasts/00032-terraform-opentofu-debate