OpenTofu

Awesome OpenTofu ¶

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

OpenTofu lets you declaratively manage your infrastructure. It's an open-source and 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.
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 aims to simplify OpenTofu usage and enforce best practices.

CI¶

pre-commit-opentofu - Git pre-commit hooks plugin.
setup-opentofu - Set up OpenTofu CLI in your GitHub Actions workflow.
terraform-github-actions - GitHub Actions for OpenTofu.
tf-via-pr-comments - GitHub Action to run Terraform or OpenTofu CLI commands via PR comments.
tofu-controller - GitOps OpenTofu and Terraform controller for Flux.

Tests¶

Terratest - Go library that makes it easier to write automated tests for your infrastructure code.

State¶

Analyze and manipulate OpenTofu's state.

tfmigrate - State migration tool.

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 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.

Registry¶

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 an 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¶

OpenTofu Course - Interactive tutorials.
Terraform in Depth - Book with OpenTofu sections.
Infrastructure automation with OpenTofu - Learn infrastructure provisioning with lectures, quizzes, hands-on demos and coding exercises.