Previously named OpenTF, OpenTofu is a fork of Terraform that is open-source, community-driven, and managed by the Linux Foundation.
OpenTofu installation can be done in multiple operating systems using a package manager or by downloading a package from OpenTofu's GitHub Releases repository and installing it on the target machine.
This tutorial shows the manual method for Ubuntu, for other Operating Systems or for package managers, look at OpenTofu official documentation.
How to install OpenTofu on Ubuntu
Identify the correct release package at OpenTofu's GitHub repository
Visit OpenTofu's GitHub Releases repository, expand the list of assets, and identify the installation file for your architecture. e.g. Choose tofu_1.6.0_amd64.deb for Ubuntu AMD/Intel 64 Bits.
Download the OpenTofu installation package using wget
Download the file:
$ wget https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/releases/download/v1.6.0/tofu_1.6.0_amd64.deb
Install OpenTofu
Install OpenTofu with the command dpkg
$ sudo dpkg --install tofu_1.6.0_amd64.deb
Test OpenTofu installation
Execute OpenTofu (tofu)
$ tofu version
OpenTofu v1.6.0
on linux_amd64
Upgrade OpenTofu
Download the latest release following the above procedure and execute tofu init to update the providers:
$ tofu init
Initializing the backend…
...
If the backend has changed, run a state migration with -migrate-state
$ tofu init -migrate-state
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