Martin Atkins e389a7f2fa website: Warn about "tofu output -raw" in a terminal
By design the "-raw" option to "tofu output" writes the literal output
value directly to stdout without any quoting or escaping, and so it's
risky to use it with an output value that could be controlled by an
attacker when stdout is a terminal.

This risk is inherent in the purpose of this option and is part of the
reason why this is not the default behavior (OpenTofu returns a quoted
representation of an output string by default) so here we just make that
risk explicit in the documentation, in the hope that operators will use
this operation mindfully.

Signed-off-by: Martin Atkins <mart@degeneration.co.uk>
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OpenTofu

OpenSSF Best Practices

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:

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Getting help and contributing

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Reporting security vulnerabilities

If you've found a vulnerability or a potential vulnerability in OpenTofu please follow Security Policy. We'll send a confirmation email to acknowledge your report, and we'll send an additional email when we've identified the issue positively or negatively.

If you believe you have found any possible copyright or intellectual property issues, please contact liaison@opentofu.org. We'll send a confirmation email to acknowledge your report.

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License

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