Switching from Terraform to openTofu

[zhenrong-wang]

As we know, Terraform changed its license from Mozilla Public License to BUSL, which is ambiguous and not friendly to public and open-source projects at all.

It is Hashicorp's decision to switch the license, and we can do nothing about it (although I am feeling not good at this decision).

Thanks to the open-source community, we have a perfect alternative: openTofu, which is a fork of the open-source version of Terraform. The openTofu project is backed and developed by a very strong and dedicated community, and it is also managed under the Linux Foundation. I'd recommend everyone to star and support that project.

Therefore, we make the decision to switch from Terraform to openTofu. In our next release (0.2.2), this component will be switched.

Please stay tuned.

Zhenrong WANG

[zhenrong-wang]

Communicating with openTofu to resolve some issues now. Check this out:

opentofu/opentofu#929

Once those issues get resolved, we will switch to openTofu.

Created a new branch called dev-0.2.2-opentofu to build and test the openTofu-version of HPC-NOW. Anyone interested in this issue please fork and switch to that branch.

In the 0.2.1 evolving versions, we will keep on using Terraform version 1.6.2 (under the BSL terms).

[zhenrong-wang]

Fixed a major bug introduced by adding the batch mode days ago. Now the 'addc' command is working properly.

A robust testing workflow is needed as there are new features being added. Really need some help with relevant experiences.

Since I just merged the code among the master, development, dev-0.2.2, the branch dev-0.2.2-opentofu is actually outdated.

Thinking a better way to manage branches more clearly. However, the master branch is always a stable one.

Still waiting for the first stable release of openTofu. Hopefully the issue we reported in these days get resolved.