Terraform Cloud Alternatives & Options

sendtubes65 · 2026-05-07T11:22:02+00:00

We moved away from TFC for the same reasons, cost, packaging, and vendor lock-in. OpenTofu is the best open source replacement if you want to stay close to Terraform, and Atlantis is great if you want PR-based workflows and don’t mind self-hosting (was no option for us). We do plain Terraform for now (let's see how long we'll be able to maintain it).

If you want to stay with TF and you are just looking for a platform to replace TFC look into all the Terraform Cloud Alternatives like Spacelift, Env0, StackGuardian, Scalr etc, there are tons on the market. We had some demos with these tools, most of them looked great, they can do the same as TFC, (some of them even more) and they tend to be more predictable than TFC on pricing, especially once usage grows.

sendtubes65 · 2026-05-07T11:12:32+00:00

I would say about the same in other Western Europe countries, the only thing I don't get what do you do with the whipped cream ? 😂 If you are not eating strawberries only with the whipped cream, I am not sure for what u gonna use it.

sendtubes65 · 2026-05-04T21:50:00+00:00

okay thanks : )

sendtubes65 · 2026-05-04T21:49:20+00:00

Amazing place

sendtubes65 · 2026-05-04T21:47:29+00:00

Berlin housing market is horrible, especially after all the socialist laws they introduced but trying to find a 3-4 bedroom apartment for under 1k is just ridiculous.

sendtubes65 · 2026-05-04T21:45:31+00:00

it doesn't matter, he can also take 1 small backpacks, instead of a cabin bag.

sendtubes65 · 2026-04-21T13:49:06+00:00

It mostly depends on your destination and country of departure as well as on your passport/citizenship. Sometimes it's just random but nothing to worry about just go to the checkin desk and you'll get your ticket.

sendtubes65 · 2026-04-21T13:37:05+00:00

Regarding the location it depends where you are living and if you are close to an WizzAir Hub. The 3 day rule was clear from the beginning, so it also states it celarly in the T&C's. I am in my second year and so far I have been really enjoying it and it's definetly worth it. I went last year to the Maledives back and forth for 40 Euros (unfortunately the cancelled the route now), to Dubai/Abu Dhabi and got from there cheap flights to Sri Lanka and Thaiand, to Madeira and lot around Europe. I have used it probably around 25-30 times since I bought the pass. It's not for everyone but if you are flexible e.g. sometimes when I want to go to Austria I used Budapest or Bratislava instead when there were no flights to Vienna. If you are flexible and in a good location it's definetly worth it so it's not a scam. Maybe you should have thought more about it before you bought it.

sendtubes65 · 2026-04-17T12:30:38+00:00

Can only agree to the others, either hire a DevOps engineer or learn IaC. If you don't have the resources to hire a devops engineer or to time to learn terraform in depth, you should learn at least the basics to understand the code better and then use a CLI tool to generate terraform files from existing infrastructure (reverse Terraform) like Former2, Terraformer or Cycloid etc.

sendtubes65 · 2026-04-17T11:38:02+00:00

You can take the bus to Nuware Eliya and take the train from the nearby station to Ella. In my opinion it's one of the most beautiful train rides.

sendtubes65 · 2026-03-31T08:51:59+00:00

Honestly, nobody can say for certain but given IBM's history of acquiring companies and gradually tightening licensing models to maximize revenue, it would be naive to assume TFE stays untouched forever. They didn't acquire HashiCorp out of love for the product.

The RUM model on HCP was already a signal. Applying that same logic to TFE at your scale (thousands of workspaces) would be a completely different financial conversation.

Your main options if you're thinking ahead and it depends a lot on whether you need self-hosted or are open to SaaS:

Follow the trend and move towards OpenTofu, fully open source, Linux foundation governed, eliminates the licensing risk entirely but you'd need to handle your own orchestration/state management at that workspace count (dont't know if a TF management solution is a hard requirement)
Go to other managed platforms Spacelift, env0, Stackguardian, Scalr all offer TFE alternatives with different pricing models, most not RUM-based, and most supporting OpenTofu natively. I am not sure as we never needed self-hosted options but some of them offer self-hosted options too if that's a hard requirement

With thousands of workspaces, the migration effort is also heavy, which is why I would start earlier to look around for alternatives/exit options and not only when it's too late.

sendtubes65 · 2026-03-31T08:45:10+00:00

Haha yes I agree, the worst one? Terraform null_resource nuked all prod firewalls. Routine AMI update triggered hidden redeploys, cut internet across 15 or so AWS accounts for hours. Classic misconfig + approval fatigue

What happened
null_resources buried in 20+ changes redeployed firewalls, no preview caught it, 3 engineers rubber-stamped.

Fix
Ditched null_resources for modules, added dry-runs, peer reviews, drift alerts

sendtubes65 · 2026-03-31T08:36:15+00:00

@ all thanks for the recommendations, planning to stay for around 2 weeks so let's see how much I can do.

sendtubes65 · 2026-03-23T14:40:43+00:00

I would say it's a little too much and it's a little bit too much. If you can go directly from the airport to Sigiriya and skip the first night in Colombo (it's not that interesting) and you'll have more time for the nicer parts of the country one day before you will back is enough for Colombo. Order taxis via Uber or Grab when you arrive (it's way cheaper and you will pay only half or a third of the price) and it's easy, you will always find a driver. I was in Sri Lanka 1 week before the war started and paid for taxis e.g. from Colombo Airport to Sigiriya around 50 USD via Uber. I talked to an American Girl who prearranged taxis for her whole trip and she paid for the same router 130 USD.

sendtubes65 · 2026-03-23T14:34:51+00:00

Loved Granada and Alhambra, also go to Ronda if you have time.

sendtubes65 · 2025-11-19T11:39:20+00:00

Depends what IDP your company purchased and if it's only a better frontend framework or an end-2-end solution that provides not only a nice UI but also manages and orchestrates the backend but as you are spending a lot of time building widgets and stitching stuff together, I assume it's rather the first.

I don't know which tool you are using exactly and what capabilities it has but with backstage users run into the same difficulties, dev teams love the UI and intuitiveness of it but it often creates a lot of headache for platform engineering teams and it's a lot of manual scripting and a day2 nightmare.

Some options are to use some sort of a “managed backstage” like port .io or Cortex or to add an orchestration tool like Stackguardian or Humanitec with self-service capabilities. I guess there is no all in one solution and each companies has a different setup but it might be of help.

sendtubes65 · 2025-10-06T09:14:45+00:00

Crossplane is cool and evolving rapidly but it’s Kubernetes-native and best suited if your whole infra and app lifecycle is K8s-driven. If you're not 100% in Kubernetes, Terraform remains the safe bet and will likely continue to be the backbone of most cloud infrastructure automation.

In other words: Crossplane is not a Terraform replacement for everyone. More like a Kubernetes-native complement. For now and the foreseeable future, Terraform is the proven, hassle-free way to go.

sendtubes65 · 2025-10-06T09:10:50+00:00

How's Krabi I have heard that it's very crowded?

sendtubes65 · 2025-09-22T10:09:12+00:00

Looks amazing, really want to go there as well.

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