Awesome Opentofu Overview
A curated list of OpenTofu tools, resources, and related projects.
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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
- OpenTofu repository (⭐26k) 🎉
- Fork announcement
- Registry (⭐375)
- Registry MCP Server (⭐38)
- Weekly updates (⭐26k)
- Office hours
- Technical Steering Committee updates (⭐0)
Community
Communication channels, meetups, newsletters, and forums.
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 (⭐4.4k) - CLI and Kubernetes app installer.
- asdf-opentofu (⭐29) - OpenTofu plugin for asdf version manager.
- tenv (⭐1.1k) - Terraform and OpenTofu version manager written in Go.
- tfswitcher (⭐4) - Terraform and OpenTofu version switcher written in Rust.
- tofuenv (⭐189) - OpenTofu version manager inspired by tfenv.
Wrappers
Simplify your OpenTofu workflows with a thin wrapper.
- Atmos (⭐1.1k) - Orchestration tool that keeps environment configuration DRY.
- Terragrunt (⭐8.8k) - Keep your configurations DRY, work with multiple modules, and manage remote state.
- Terramate (⭐3.4k) - Automation, orchestration, and code generation for OpenTofu, Terraform, Kubernetes, and others.
- easy_infra (⭐75) - Docker container to simplify and secure the use of infrastructure as code.
- pug (⭐564) - A terminal user interface for power users.
- tf (⭐80) - Less verbose and more friendly command outputs.
- tfam (⭐24) - Rust-powered wrapper for concurrent Terraform/OpenTofu apply, enabling multi-deployment support.
- tfexe (⭐3) - Rust-powered wrapper for seamless execution of tfswitch and Terraform/OpenTofu with version control.
- tfwrapper (⭐147) - Python wrapper that simplifies OpenTofu usage and enforces best practices.
CI
- Atlantis - Automating workflows via pull requests.
- Burrito - Burrito is a TACoS (Terraform Automation and Collaboration Software) that works inside Kubernetes.
- TF-via-PR (⭐219) - GitHub Action to init, plan and apply Terraform/OpenTofu via PR automation.
- pre-commit-opentofu (⭐69) - Git pre-commit hooks plugin.
- setup-opentofu (⭐111) - Set up OpenTofu CLI in your GitHub Actions workflow.
- terraform-github-actions (⭐864) - GitHub Actions for OpenTofu.
- tofu-controller (⭐1.4k) - GitOps OpenTofu and Terraform controller for Flux.
Tests
- Terratest (⭐7.7k) - Go library that makes writing automated tests for your infrastructure code easier.
State
Analyze and manipulate OpenTofu's state.
- tfmigrate (⭐1.2k) - State migration tool.
Providers
Inspect and interact with OpenTofu providers.
- tfschema (⭐306) - Schema inspector for providers.
Platforms
Alternatives to Terraform Cloud.
- digger (⭐4.6k) - Open-source IaC orchestration tool. Digger allows you to run IaC in your existing CI pipeline.
- terrakube (⭐667) - Open-source platform with a private registry, remote state, custom flows, scheduled workspaces, and visual states.
- tofutf (⭐80) - Open-source alternative to Terraform Enterprise with SSO, team management, agents, etc.
- Terrateam (⭐810) - Open-source alternative to Terraform Cloud/Enterprise. GitOps-first and built for scale, security, and reliability across modern VCS providers.
Registry
- library.tf - An indexer of registries for providers and modules with insights and documentation.
- boring-registry (⭐210) - Boring-registry is an open-source module and provider registry compatible with OpenTofu.
- hermitcrab (⭐33) - Registry network mirroring service compatible with OpenTofu.
- terrac (⭐32) - Minimal private module registry compatible with OpenTofu.
- GitLab Module Registry - Use GitLab projects as a private registry for terraform modules.
- terralist (⭐416) - Private registry for providers and modules.
- citizen (⭐641) - Private registry for modules and providers with support for multiple databases and storages.
- petra (⭐44) - Private registry manager using Google Cloud Storage.
- tapir (⭐223) - Private registry for modules and providers with a UI.
- terraform-registry (⭐109) - Modules registry with authentication and support for multiple backends.
- terrareg (⭐303) - Open-source modules registry with UI, optional Git integration and deep analysis.
- terustry (⭐67) - Proxy registry for providers.
- tofuref (⭐13) - TUI for OpenTofu provider registry.
Helpers
- OpenTofu Language Server (⭐95) - OpenTofu Language Server.
- VS Code Extension - Extension for Visual Studio Code with the OpenTofu Language Server adds editing features for OpenTofu files such as syntax highlighting, IntelliSense, code navigation, code formatting, module explorer.
- zed Extension (⭐1) - Extension for the Zed Editor.
- terratag (⭐984) - CLI tool allowing for tags or labels to be applied across an entire set of OpenTofu/Terraform files.
- tfupdate (⭐606) - Update version constraints in your Terraform / OpenTofu configurations.
Learning
- OpenTofu Course - Interactive tutorials.
- Terraform in Depth - Book with OpenTofu sections.
- Infrastructure automation with OpenTofu - Learn infrastructure provisioning with lectures, quizzes, hands-on demos and coding exercises.
- Migrating From Terraform To OpenTofu - Introduction to OpenTofu history and how to migrate.
Media
- OSS EU 2023 - Announcement
- OSS EU 2023 - Project Overview
- Code To Cloud - Getting Started With OpenTofu
- CNCF - OpenTofu Day Europe 2024
- CNCF - OpenTofu Day North America 2024
- CNCF - OpenTofu Day Europe 2025
Podcasts
- SE Radio: Christian Mesh on OpenTofu
- Kubernetes Podcast - OpenTofu, with Ohad Maislish
- TheIaCPodcast - Expert Panel on OpenTofu GA Release, Licensing, and OSS Future
- Contributor - Community-Driven IaC
- Ned in the Cloud - IaC Live Stream
- Arrested DevOps - What's Up With Open Terraform?
- OpenObservability - Terraform is no longer open source. Is OpenTF the successor?
- TheCloudGambit - The Future of OpenTF
- Oxide and Friends - Fork in the road for Terraform?
- Changelog - OpenTF for an open Terraform