How to setup OpenTofu
What is OpenTofu?
The open source infrastructure as code tool. Previously named OpenTF, OpenTofu is a fork of Terraform that is open-source, community-driven, and managed by the Linux Foundation.
The core OpenTofu workflow consists of three stages:
Write:
Defining resources, which may be across multiple cloud providers and services. For example, you might create a configuration to deploy an application on virtual machines in a Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) network with security groups and a load balancer.
Plan:
OpenTofu creates an execution plan describing the infrastructure it will create, update, or destroy based on the existing infrastructure and your configuration.
Apply:
On approval, OpenTofu performs the proposed operations in the correct order, respecting any resource dependencies.
Getting started with OpenTofu
Installing OpenTofu
The most direct method to install OpenTofu is to download it from GitHub releases.where you can find the zip archive for the platforms.
In order to install(RPM based distros), Login to the code server as root, run the floowing commands
1yum install https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/download/v1.6.0-alpha3/tofu_1.6.0-alpha3_amd64.rpm
Validate the tofu installation by running
1tofu version
1tofu
