Awesome OpenTofu

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.

Contents

• Official
• Community
• Features
• Tools
• Environment managers
• Wrappers
• CI
• Tests
• State
• Providers
• Platforms
• Registry
• Helpers
• Learning
• Media
• Podcasts

Official

• OpenTofu repository 🎉
• Fork announcement
• Registry
• Registry MCP Server
• Weekly updates
• Office hours
• Technical Steering Committee updates

Community

Communication channels, meetups, newsletters, and forums.

• OpenTofu GitHub Discussion
• OpenTofu LinkedIn
• OpenTofu Slack
• OpenTofu Twitter

Features

• 1.10 - Enhanced moved and removed blocks
• 1.10 - External key providers
• 1.10 - OCI registry support
• 1.10 - S3 native state locking
• 1.10 - Target and exclude files
• 1.9 - Provider iteration with for_each
• 1.9 - The -exclude flag
• 1.8 - Early variable and locals evaluation
• 1.8 - Override files for OpenTofu (.tofu)
• 1.7 - End-to-end encryption for state files
• 1.7 - Loopable import blocks
• 1.7 - Provider-defined functions
• 1.7 - Removed block
• CanI.TF - Feature parity between Terraform and OpenTofu

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

• Atlantis - Automating workflows via pull requests.
• Burrito - A TACoS (Terraform Automation and Collaboration Software) that works inside Kubernetes.