Like many other companies, HashiCorp has dropped the open source approach that gave its products their start for the source-available Business Source License (BSL).
HashiCorp is moving its products previously licensed as Open Source away from it to Business Source License (BSL) moving forward
Terraform is a popular Infrastructure as Code tool used for provisioning cloud resources like AWS, Azure among others
Terraform version 1.5.5 and earlier are still open source
there is a push for a community maintained open source fork if this decision is not reversed, OpenTF
but another user there have mentioned that while most of them integrate with Kubernetes and AWS, short lived DB credentials are not in any of those listed
I was hit aggressively by HC sales team last year, we are using TF and Vault, and were looking to add consul, now it is pretty vauge how it will all pan put
i dont think theyre equivalent tools since Terraform is used for things like creating cloud VMs with the selected OS image, configuring subnets and route tables among other things which i dont believe NixOS is meant for