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Terraform or OpenTofu
Two questions get tangled in infrastructure-as-code, and only one is hard. Which tool, Terraform or OpenTofu, is easy - for new work in 2026 use OpenTofu, open-source license, community governance, drop-in compatibility, and move on. The hard part, identical for both because they share a design, is state - the memory that makes declarative infra work and the most dangerous file you own. Here is what state is, the three ways it bites (wrong place, concurrent writes, drift), and why it holds your secrets in the clear.