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At some point after this documentation was originally written the schema structure grew to include the possibility of structural attribute types, represented using "nested_type" instead of "type" in the attribute definition, but it seems that the documentation was not updated to mention that. This is just a minimal extra note about that focused mainly on just acknowledging that this possibility exists at all, in case anyone is relying on these docs to build something to parse this format. It would probably be helpful to expand both this and the existing documentation to specify the format more precisely, but my focus here is just on quickly filling in this missing piece so that the documentation is complete, even if not detailed and precise. Signed-off-by: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
OpenTofu
OpenTofu is an OSS tool for building, changing, and versioning infrastructure safely and efficiently. OpenTofu can manage existing and popular service providers as well as custom in-house solutions.
The key features of OpenTofu are:
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Infrastructure as Code: Infrastructure is described using a high-level configuration syntax. This allows a blueprint of your datacenter to be versioned and treated as you would any other code. Additionally, infrastructure can be shared and re-used.
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Execution Plans: OpenTofu has a "planning" step where it generates an execution plan. The execution plan shows what OpenTofu will do when you call apply. This lets you avoid any surprises when OpenTofu manipulates infrastructure.
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Resource Graph: OpenTofu builds a graph of all your resources, and parallelizes the creation and modification of any non-dependent resources. Because of this, OpenTofu builds infrastructure as efficiently as possible, and operators get insight into dependencies in their infrastructure.
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Change Automation: Complex changesets can be applied to your infrastructure with minimal human interaction. With the previously mentioned execution plan and resource graph, you know exactly what OpenTofu will change and in what order, avoiding many possible human errors.
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