OpenTofu Day North America 2025
as the organisers put it
OpenTofu Day North America 2025 has officially wrapped! Thank you to all the attendees who joined us. Watch keynotes and all breakout sessions on the CNCF YouTube Channel. Review session slides from…
who it's for
OpenTofu users, platform engineers, provider developers, infrastructure engineers, DevOps engineers, editor tooling developers, security engineers
topics
Go CPU profiling and OpenTelemetry; S3 backend scaling; remote backend API proxy; SQLite WAL backed S3 storage; module catalog and patterns; modules-of-modules cataloging; tofu-ls language server; open-tofu-schema generation; dynamic provider generation from GraphQL; state encryption and key management; policy-as-code with OPA; GitOps tooling (Atlantis, teragrunt)
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome + Opening Remarks | Sebastian Stadil | 05m |
Project is now in the CNCF after community effort, with two years of OpenTofu Day events and adoption reported across almost all continents and industries… | ||
| OpenTofu's Performance Pillars, Pitfalls, and Profiling | Christian Mesh | 26m |
OpenTofu adds OpenTelemetry traces and a Go CPU profiler to pinpoint where time and memory go; profiling shows a contrived config with 1,000 duplicated… | ||
| Curating OpenTofu Modules & Patterns | Douglas Flagg, Connor Carroll | 32m |
Fidelity runs OpenTofu at scale with 75,000 state files managing about 5 million cloud resources across ~2,500 applications and enforces module standards via a… | ||
| Stretching the Limits of S3 Backend for OpenTofu | Mohamed Habib | 06m |
OpenTaco layers a stateless API on top of an S3 state bucket to add managed-backend features without extra storage, implementing a remote backend API proxy… | ||
| Lightning Talk: 5 Security Tips for Terraform | Fabrizio Sgura | 14m |
Five concrete practices for OpenTofu/Terraform security: protect state with client-side encryption and cloud-side encryption for S3/DynamoDB and avoid leaking… | ||
| How OpenTofu Uses LSP To Power Its Text Editors Plugins | Diogenes Fernandes | 25m |
OpenTofu ships a language server called tofu-ls that uses LSP over JSON-RPC2 plus hcl/lang utilities to deliver hover, completion, go-to-definition and… | ||
| Build Your Tofu Toolbox: A Tour of Battle-Tested Tools for IaC at Sca... | Colin Lacy, Grace Brickley | 23m |
Practical cookbook of tools and demos: use tenv auto-activates pinned versions to handle projects stuck on OpenTofu 1.10.1 while others run 1.8.1; run… | ||
| Ask The Devs | Larry Bourwitz, Christian Mesh | 25m |
OpenTofu invites contributors to join Slack, try 1.11 beta or nightly builds, file issues and use RFC process for feature proposals; repos tag good first issue… | ||
| Lightning Talk: My Journey Building a Dynamic Provider | Marco Martinez | 15m |
Built a generator that turns simple GraphQL queries into a usable OpenTofu provider using the Terraform Provider Framework and Go templating, producing Go… | ||
| Lightning Talk: 1 Person, 1 Day, Migrate Everything To OpenTofu | Brian Dandoy | 10m |
Claims a one‑person migration of 400 directories to OpenTofu completed in a single day, with preparatory test runs and updated automation scripts. Uses S3… | ||
| Closing Remarks | Sebastian Stadil | 01m |
OpenTofu Day concludes with organizers reporting strong live engagement and an unusually high number of audience questions, signaling active community… | ||
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