Best Open Source Alternatives to Terraform

Compare the best free and open-source alternatives to Terraform — self-hosted and desktop replacements you fully control, ranked by GitHub stars, license and platform support.

Curated by open-source.store · Updated November 2026 · 3 alternatives

Terraform

Proprietary SaaS

Terraform alternatives compared

Open-source alternatives to Terraform, compared by stars, license and platform
Tool		License	Platforms	Self-hosted
Digger	5,061	MIT	DockerLinux	Yes	Oct 2026	Visit
Nitric	2,019	Apache-2.0	Web	No	Oct 2026	Visit
Terrateam	1,326	MPL-2.0	DockerLinux	Yes	Nov 2026	Visit

Top open-source Terraform alternatives

Digger5,061MIT

Digger runs Terraform and OpenTofu inside existing CI runners, replacing proprietary cloud backends while keeping secrets in private pipelines.

DockerLinux

vs Terraform: a free, open-source option you fully control, licensed MIT.

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Edgar Sipki

Go & gRPC engineer · founder of EasyP

Promoted

Mentoring for backend developers. Consulting for startups.

Go, gRPC and Protobuf done right, LLM agents in production, and the hard parts of shipping a first product.

GogRPCProtobufLLM agents

sipki.online

Speaker at HighLoad++, GolangConf, AI Conf, DevOpsConf
Helped launch 7+ startups
Maintainer of EasyP, the open-source Protobuf toolkit

Nitric2,019Apache-2.0

Nitric is an open-source framework that compiles application code into serverless AWS, GCP, and Azure cloud infrastructure without manual IaC boilerplate.

Web

vs Terraform: a free, open-source option you fully control, licensed Apache-2.0.

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Terrateam1,326MPL-2.0

Terrateam is an open-source GitOps platform that automates Terraform in pull requests while keeping cloud credentials and state inside private runners.

DockerLinux

vs Terraform: a free, open-source option you fully control, licensed MPL-2.0.

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