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OpenTofu

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A curated and collaborative list of awesome OpenTofu resources and tools.

OpenTofu allows you to declaratively manage your infrastructure. It's an open-source, community-driven alternative to Terraform.

Official

Community

Communication channels, meetups, newsletters, and forums.

Features

Tools

Environment managers

  • arkade - CLI and Kubernetes app installer.
  • asdf-opentofu - OpenTofu plugin for asdf version manager.
  • tenv - Terraform and OpenTofu version manager written in Go.
  • tfswitcher - Terraform and OpenTofu version switcher written in Rust.
  • tofuenv - OpenTofu version manager inspired by tfenv.

Wrappers

Simplify your OpenTofu workflows with a thin wrapper.

  • Atmos - Orchestration tool that keeps environment configuration DRY.
  • Terragrunt - Keep your configurations DRY, work with multiple modules, and manage remote state.
  • Terramate - Automation, orchestration, and code generation for OpenTofu, Terraform, Kubernetes, and others.
  • easy_infra - Docker container to simplify and secure the use of infrastructure as code.
  • pug - A terminal user interface for power users.
  • tf - Less verbose and more friendly command outputs.
  • tfam - Rust-powered wrapper for concurrent Terraform/OpenTofu apply, enabling multi-deployment support.
  • tfexe - Rust-powered wrapper for seamless execution of tfswitch and Terraform/OpenTofu with version control.
  • tfwrapper - Python wrapper that simplifies OpenTofu usage and enforces best practices.

CI

Tests

  • Terratest - Go library that makes writing automated tests for your infrastructure code easier.

State

Analyze and manipulate OpenTofu's state.

Providers

Inspect and interact with OpenTofu providers.

  • tfschema - Schema inspector for providers.

Platforms

Alternatives to Terraform Cloud.

  • digger - Open-source IaC orchestration tool. Digger allows you to run IaC in your existing CI pipeline.
  • terrakube - Open-source platform with a private registry, remote state, custom flows, scheduled workspaces, and visual states.
  • tofutf - Open-source alternative to Terraform Enterprise with SSO, team management, agents, etc.
  • walrus - Walrus is an open-source application management platform based on IaC tools, including OpenTofu, Terraform, and others.
  • Terrateam - Open-source alternative to Terraform Cloud/Enterprise, GitOps-first with native GitHub integration and designed for scale, security, and reliability.

Registry

  • library.tf - An indexer of registries for providers and modules with insights and documentation.
  • boring-registry - Boring-registry is an open-source module and provider registry compatible with OpenTofu.
  • hermitcrab - Registry network mirroring service compatible with OpenTofu.
  • terrac - Minimal private module registry compatible with OpenTofu.
  • GitLab Module Registry - Use GitLab projects as a private registry for terraform modules.
  • terralist - Private registry for providers and modules.
  • citizen - Private registry for modules and providers with support for multiple databases and storages.
  • petra - Private registry manager using Google Cloud Storage.
  • tapir - Private registry for modules and providers with a UI.
  • terraform-registry - Modules registry with authentication and support for multiple backends.
  • terrareg - Open-source modules registry with UI, optional Git integration and deep analysis.
  • terustry - Proxy registry for providers.

Helpers

  • terratag - CLI tool allowing for tags or labels to be applied across an entire set of OpenTofu/Terraform files.

Learning

Media

Podcasts