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Infrastructure as Code in 2026: Moving from Vendor Lock-in to Open Governance
In 2026, your infrastructure code is a corporate asset. Why are you letting a single vendor own the license to your foundation? If you write IaC every day, this topic is for you. A licensing change is
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The CI/CD pipeline blocking scenario you describe hits differently when your IaC tool is also the state backend. Teams that migrated to OpenTofu found that the state file format compatibility was the actual migration bottleneck — not the HCL syntax, which is nearly identical. Worth noting that the Linux Foundation governance model also means slower feature velocity compared to a single-vendor roadmap, which is a tradeoff some platform teams underestimate.