How to Setup OpenTofu
Installing OpenTofu from the GitHub release RPM and walking through the write, plan, and apply workflow.
What is OpenTofu?
An open-source infrastructure-as-code tool. Previously called OpenTF, OpenTofu is a community-driven fork of Terraform now managed by the Linux Foundation.
The core workflow
Three stages, in order:
Write
Define your resources. These can span multiple cloud providers and services — for example, deploying an application onto virtual machines in a VPC network, with security groups and a load balancer attached.
Plan
OpenTofu produces an execution plan describing what it will create, update, or destroy, based on your configuration compared against the existing infrastructure.
Apply
Once you approve the plan, OpenTofu performs the proposed operations in dependency order.
Installing OpenTofu
The most direct method is to download the archive for your platform from OpenTofu GitHub releases.
On RPM-based distributions, log in to the code server as root and run:
yum install https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/download/v1.6.0-alpha3/tofu_1.6.0-alpha3_amd64.rpm
Verify the installation:
tofu version
Run tofu with no arguments for the help output:
tofu
