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Oracle goes vegan: Dumps Terraform for OpenTofu

OCI tells customers to shift to latest update built on open source.
We guess OpenTofu is enterprise-ready!

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May 14, 2024 . 6:00 PM
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Oracle has swapped Terraform for the open-source fork OpenTofu under
the hood of its Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Cloud Manager.

It is now telling customers they "must" make the shift to its new
OpenTofu-based version of the migration/provisioning tool by June 30,
2024.

Oracle EBS is a suite of business applications including CRM,
procurement and supply chain software. "Cloud Manager" is what it
describes as the "primary tool" for EBS customers looking to adopt
Oracle Cloud. 

It can be used for migrating Linux-based environments, provisioning
new environments, and performing lifecycle management activities.

(Unless The Stack is sorely mistaken, "Cloud Manager" is a lick of
Oracle paint on an underlying open source Terraform engine; or was...
)

Oracle's OpenTofu shift

In a short blog, an EBS product director at Oracle said that its
"latest Oracle E-Business Suite (EBS) Cloud Manager update, 24.1.1.1,
is now available," urging customers to update "at your earliest
convenience."

"In this release, we have switched from Terraform to OpenTofu due to
forthcoming Terraform licensing changes," wrote Terri Noyes.

" You must therefore upgrade your Cloud Manager to 24.1.1.1 by June
30, 2024 at the latest," she said, adding that the release updated
further components to "maintain security standards and improve
supportability."

The move comes after Hashicorp's 2023 decision to adopt a more
restrictive BSL 1.1. Licence for Terraform and other products,
instead of the MPL 2.0 that it previously used. That move triggered a
swift fork, OpenTofu, adopted by the Linux Foundation. (Version 1.7
landed in March 2024 and was widely considered to be the first
enterprise-ready version.)

Oracle's move seems like a straightforward decision to ensure it is
using the most permissive underlying IaC tool without having to worry
about downstream licence complications, no more and no less. OpenTofu
is essentially a pretty familiar drop-in replacement for Terraform;
using it here is ultimately a minor implementation detail for those
looking to move complex EBS environments to the cloud, but it does
signal that serious enterprises feel the fork is already robust
enough to use. 

In late April IBM agreed to buy Hashicorp for $6.7 billion. 

See also: "Red Hash"? IBM vows to run the Red Hat playbook after $6.4
billion HashiCorp buyout

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