By Joab Jackson
Publication Date: 2025-12-12 22:00:00
Going forward, when you run IBM‘s Terraform Infrastructure as Code (IaC) software, you will have one language to write your configurations: the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL).
On Monday, HashiCorp, an IBM company, announced that it will no longer support the Terraform Cloud Development Kit (CDK or CDKTF). Although the existing code will remain available in a GitHub archive, HashiCorp will no longer maintain or update the code, leaving it all but unusable for enterprises.
“Unfortunately, Terraform CDK did not find product-market fit at scale. HashiCorp, an IBM Company, has chosen to focus its investments on Terraform core and its broader ecosystem,” a note on the site read.
The CDK itself is licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), so users are free to fork the software itself, IBM suggested.
The company, however, is encouraging users to use HCL, which was developed by HashiCorp and licensed under the Mozilla Public License (MPL), originally designed…
