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0 pointsunethical_ban2y ago0 comments

I worked at a financial institution that heavily utilized terraform. Their business is banking and they do not offer automation, orchestration or IaC as a service. They're fine.

This seems to affect only those places that attempt to build a business off terraform.

I am not saying those businesses can't be mad at the rug getting pulled out from under them, but it's important to be accurate that this doesn't affect end users of TF directly.

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ig12y ago

Is the financial institution made up of separate legal entities which bill each other for services, and does one of those entities provide tech infra for the other legal entities?

unethical_banOP2y ago

Good point, but no. Also I think they pay Hashicorp for support.

ig12y ago

The messiness of the real-world unfortunately doesn't play well with ambiguity in licences :)

It'll be a headache for every large company which now has to send the licence to their legal teams who have to ask these kind of questions (another interesting one is "can contractors touch our terraform setup?") - in fairness to Hashicorp they've tried to address some of these issues in their FAQ, but the FAQ isn't legally binding so legal teams have to go on what's actually written in the licence.

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0 pointsunethical_ban2y ago0 comments

I worked at a financial institution that heavily utilized terraform. Their business is banking and they do not offer automation, orchestration or IaC as a service. They're fine.

This seems to affect only those places that attempt to build a business off terraform.

I am not saying those businesses can't be mad at the rug getting pulled out from under them, but it's important to be accurate that this doesn't affect end users of TF directly.

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ig12y ago

Is the financial institution made up of separate legal entities which bill each other for services, and does one of those entities provide tech infra for the other legal entities?

unethical_banOP2y ago

Good point, but no. Also I think they pay Hashicorp for support.

ig12y ago

The messiness of the real-world unfortunately doesn't play well with ambiguity in licences :)

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