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# Zech Crannigan

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## 1 article by Zech Crannigan

[![OpenTofu vs. Terraform: Choosing an IaC Control Plane for Belvedere](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frgzgbulrzrbknuiprxti.supabase.co%2Fstorage%2Fv1%2Fobject%2Fpublic%2Fmedia%2Fuploads%2F1780345518739-terraform-opentofu.gif&w=1920&q=75)](/articles/iac-tooling-opentofu-vs-terraform) [

## OpenTofu vs. Terraform: Choosing an IaC Control Plane for Belvedere

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![Zech Crannigan](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Frgzgbulrzrbknuiprxti.supabase.co%2Fstorage%2Fv1%2Fobject%2Fpublic%2Fmedia%2Fuploads%2F1780343643662-1592665325450.jpg&w=48&q=75) [Zech Crannigan](/articles/author/zech-crannigan)5 min readProductPublished June 2, 2026

OpenTofu and Terraform solve nearly the same day-to-day problem. For Belvedere's current stack, AWS, EKS, Kubernetes, Helm, and Git-based CI/CD, the normal workflow is effectively equivalent: write HCL, use providers and modules, plan changes, apply through controlled automation.

The meaningful differences are licensing, governance, managed-service alignment, and how each tool handles state and plan artifacts.

For Belvedere's greenfield infrastructure work, OpenTofu fit the constraints we cared about most: open-source licensing, tool-layer state and plan encryption, active community governance, and portability across commercial, regulated, and customer-controlled environments.

Terraform remains a mature tool with the larger ecosystem, deeper HCP Terraform integration, and Terraform Stacks for teams centered on HashiCorp's managed control plane. Our decision was narrower: Belvedere was starting fresh, and OpenTofu gave us the Terraform-style workflow without taking on Terraform's current licensing and vendor-alignment tradeoffs.

## Why This Matters

Infrastructure-as-code is not just deployment scripting. It becomes the control plane for cloud accounts, Kubernetes clusters, network boundaries, IAM, secrets-adjacent configuration, and recovery.

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