When I was asked to think about my technology predictions for 2025, it occurred to me how much happened from 2023 until now, where the dust is still settling and the reverberations from these seismic shifts in our ecosystem are still taking hold of our industry. 

The Infrastructure as Code (IaC) landscape is entering an era of transformation. The ubiquitous tools we came to know and love are being replaced with newer more open options — if we just recap all of the major milestones from then until now: Terraform is losing ground to other more open solutions after closing its license in August 2023, the fork of OpenTofu and its contribution to the Linux Foundation, and the consequent acquisition of Hashicorp by IBM, as well as the growing momentum around other IaC tooling like Crossplane, Pulumi and even ARM templates.