Terraform went BSL in 2023, the community forked it, and IBM bought the company anyway. The lesson isn't that HashiCorp was villainous. It's that a license is a contract one side can rewrite, and your infrastructure planning has to price that.
Facebook figured this out in 2015: config errors were a major source of outages, and their answer was to compile configuration from source and model its dependencies. A decade later, most of us still review the characters instead of the structure.
After 47 indentation errors, 23 deployment failures, and one nervous breakdown, it's time we talked about our relationship, YAML.
Julia