Terraform

Last month I finally pulled the trigger. After months of watching the OpenTofu project mature and HashiCorp’s licensing situation settle into something I wasn’t comfortable with for client work, I migrated 47 Terraform modules across three production environments to OpenTofu. It took about two weeks of actual work spread over a month, and most of it was smooth. Most. Why I Switched The BSL license change was the catalyst, but not the only reason. A few of my clients started asking uncomfortable questions about their Terraform Enterprise contracts. One of them got a letter from HashiCorp’s sales team that made the cost trajectory pretty clear. OpenTofu had reached a point where the risk of staying felt bigger than the risk of moving. ...

I have deleted an S3 bucket exactly once and regretted it immediately. Back in 2022, I tore down a staging environment, and within a few hours someone else had claimed the same bucket name. A CloudFormation stack in another account kept happily writing logs to a bucket I no longer controlled. Not my favorite Friday. AWS has finally shipped a real fix: account regional namespaces for S3 general purpose buckets. It took about seven years, which feels both absurd and very on-brand. ...