TL;DR: The BSL change hit differently than most license drama. In August 2023, HashiCorp moved Terraform from the Mozilla Public License 2. 📖 Reading time: ~34 min What's in this article Why I Started Looking for Terraform Alternatives (And You Probably Should Too) The Candidates I Actually Tested OpenTofu: The Closest Drop-In If You're Already on Terraform Pulumi: When You're Tired of Fighting HCL Crossplane: IaC That Lives Inside Your Kubernetes Cluster Ansible: Don't Dismiss It for Cloud Provisioning Side-by-Side Comparison: What Actually Matters When to Pick What: Matching the Tool to Your Actual Situation Why I Started Looking for Terraform Alternatives (And You Probably Should Too) The BSL change hit differently than most license drama. In August 2023, HashiCorp moved Terraform from the Mozilla Public License 2.0 to the Business Source License 1.1 — and the key clause is this one: you can't use Terraform to build a product that competes with HashiCorp. That sounds narrow until you read it closely.…