It ain't like Terraform itself was ever a huge moneymaker. Terraform Cloud (i.e. the fancy-shmancy Terraform backend), maybe, but the actual language, the prov

It ain't like Terraform itself was ever a huge moneymaker. Terraform Cloud (i.e. the fancy-shmancy Terraform backend), maybe, but the actual language, the providers, the modules, etc. are all pretty universally free-as-in-beer. The only way to make money with them is to use them to build something else that then makes money. Put simply: > we can't generate enough revenue from it to keep the company afloat and continue providing TerraForm development, and sell it as a product at the same time. They were never selling it as a product in the first place. It's more of a loss leader if anything; Costco has its $1.50 hot dogs to attract customers to buy memberships, and HashiCorp has Terraform (and its provider/module ecosystems) to attract customers to buy Terraform Cloud (and Vault, and Nomad, and everything else they actually do sell).