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by rmccue 193 days ago
We moved off HashiCorp's Terraform Cloud when they tried to hike the price 100x on us, although that was technically pre-acquisition I think (it was their move to resource-based pricing). In talking with our account manager, they basically said they only really cared about enterprise accounts, and that migrating away would probably make sense for us.

HashiCorp also changed their licenses to non-open-source licenses, but again I think this was technically pre-acquisition (I think as they were gearing up to be a more attractive target for an exit).
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dangus 193 days ago
In addition to this, I’ve noticed that OpenTofu is gaining much more interesting features and are actually acting upon long-requested functionality that HashiCorp has refused to implement (example: provider for_each in 1.9.0)
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aryonoco 192 days ago
Yeah I just implemented a new stack and noticed OpenTofu now supports client side encryption for the state files in with keys stored in Azure KeyVault (in the latest 1.11 release). AWS and GCP had been supported for a while.

Client side state encryption was one of the things which HashiCorp always gatekeeped for HashiCorp Cloud and never implemented in the Open Souce / Sourece Available versions.

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mitchellh 193 days ago
> (I think as they were gearing up to be a more attractive target for an exit).

A common conspiracy theory, but not true.

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sethops1 193 days ago
Source: the guy the company was named after
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maxloh 190 days ago
Where did you read that?
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nextaccountic 192 days ago
Then why move away from open source?
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ruraljuror 192 days ago
Yeah how would you know?

j/k Love ghostty!

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jen20 193 days ago
> were gearing up to be a more attractive target for an exit

An "exit" from the public market?

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everfrustrated 193 days ago
Yes. They were burning the cash they raised from IPO as weren't profitable and no real path to profitability. Needed to find a buyer to take private as the other option - raise debt or print shares - wasn't going to happen as the share price had massively tanked and wasn't going to go up any time soon.

Hopefully mitchellh will write a book about Hashicorp some time. Would be fascinating to read the inside take.

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