Is Terraform Dead? Revive Your Infrastructure as Code Strategy

The Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tooling landscape is in turmoil. HashiCorp’s decision to move from open source to a “source-available” license and pending acquisition by IBM are just the biggest recent shakeups.

Before that, Chef was acquired by Progress, and Puppet was purchased by Perforce. Ansible owner Red Hat is putting its resources behind its Ansible Automation Platform product over the community-based edition, and AWS has largely replaced CloudFormation with Cloud Development Kit (CDK). And new entrants, including CrossPlane, OpenTofu, Pulumi, OpenSearch and Valkey, are making their moves to capture market share.

On the heels of these massive shifts, many enterprises are reevaluating their IaC and automation strategies, looking for ways to reduce risk and adapt to the changing cloud landscape.

Get Answers to Your IaC Questions

During “Is Terraform Dead? Evaluating Your IaC Strategy in an Evolving Tooling Landscape” Ido Neeman, CEO and co-founder of Firefly, and TNS host Chris Pirillo discussed these dilemmas. Ido cut through the noise and provided actionable insights to future-proof your DevOps practices. He also explored the state of IaC tools, specifically focusing on Terraform, to ensure your strategy remains effective and agile.

Highlights of this webinar include:

• Effects of IaC’s evolution: Get the history behind these changes, from scripting to modern tools, and how it shapes your future decisions.
• Where Terraform stands today: Analyze Terraform’s current market position, challenges and potential future to inform your tooling decisions.
• Ways to mitigate new risks: Learn how to build adaptable systems that can withstand the ever-changing tech landscape.
• How to evaluate the new multi-IaC tools: Explore the pros and cons of emerging tools like OpenTofu, Pulumi and Crossplane to diversify your IaC toolkit.
• What open source IaC offers: Gain valuable lessons from OpenTofu, Valkey and OpenSearch to make informed technology choices and avoid vendor lock-in.
• Ways to pivot amid rapid change: Discover agile strategies to quickly pivot when deeply invested in shifting technologies.
• How to choose and deploy new tools: Walk away with a solid approach to evaluate, adopt and integrate new IaC tools into your existing workflows.

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