Idk if its just me but these sort of frameworks seem the make it intentionally hard to figure out wtf they are for.
What is OpenTofu? OpenTofu is a Terraform fork, created as an initiative of Gruntwork, Spacelift, Harness, Env0, Scalr, and others, in response to HashiCorp’s switch from an open-source license to the BUSL
None of these names mean anything to me.
The entire FAQ doesn’t spend a syllable saying what it is for, except that its like Terraform. Which is a bad name to google.
After searching around, it seems to be some vaugely defined devops/cloud management thing.
I understand the concern but I think you’re just not really in the target demographic for the project. Terraform is a very well known infrastructure-as-code tool, and the other companies listed are suppliers of commercial products that build on top of what Terraform provides.
Yeah this is just not for you. In the DevOps/SRE space, EVERYONE knows terraform and most of those names will be recognizable to the people most deeply involved in using/managing terraform.
Is that the crowd you want to address people on your frontpage?
If you’re asking why aren’t DevOps/SRE mentioned specifically on the OpenTofu front page, I don’t think you understand how common this software is… Like if someone forked Google, you wouldn’t need to describe what Google is. Everyone already knows it. For the people in this industry, terraform is essentially a defacto monopoly. Even if you don’t use it, if you’re working in SRE, you know what it is and what it does.
But what if you’re not in that business?
Think about it, you’re a novice, or maybe a sales guy, project manager, or even just a developer. I’m a senior software developer and my understanding of what Terraform is doing, is rather vague - and 99% of that knowledge comes from a single guy I talked to a whole ago. These depths of infrastructure have been hardly of any relevance to me for quite some time.
Now, imagine one of the aforementioned people being told something about some weird soy based software and starting to google. This site won’t tell them, what they need to know. That’s what I meant above: this site is not intended for people who already know.
It’s mostly about infrastructure as code but I have never used it.
