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Manifesto
Manifesto is an infrastructure-as-code project and a community-driven software fork. It serves as an open-source infrastructure tool designed to provide an alternative to proprietary automation software by maintaining a codebase under a permissive open-source license.
The project focuses on open-source licensing advocacy, calling for foundational infrastructure tools to return to transparent and permissive licenses. This effort aims to ensure community transparency, prevent vendor lock-in, and maintain software longevity.
The project's capabilities include managing a provider registry for infrastructure modules and providers, as well as coordinating community-driven software maintenance to ensure long-term availability of the codebase.
Features
- Infrastructure Management Tools - Manages a community-driven open-source infrastructure tool to prevent vendor lock-in.
- Infrastructure Tool Forks - Ships a community-driven version of infrastructure automation software to replace proprietary alternatives.
- Cloud Infrastructure Management - Enables the management of cloud infrastructure using an open-source fork of Terraform.
- Infrastructure as Code - Provides a set of tools for defining and provisioning data center infrastructure using declarative configuration.
- Provider Registries - Maintains a registry for publishing and distributing infrastructure provider plugins.
- Community-Driven Forks - Provides a community-maintained fork of infrastructure tools to ensure development continues under a permissive license.
- Community-Driven Maintenance - Coordinates community-driven maintenance to ensure the long-term availability of the infrastructure codebase.
- Open Source Distributions - Provides an open-source distribution of infrastructure tools as a replacement for proprietary versions.
- Open Source Licenses - Utilizes permissive open-source licenses to ensure the software remains free for modification and redistribution.
- Licensing Advocacy - Advocates for the return of foundational infrastructure tools to transparent and permissive open-source licenses.
