hashicorp/terraform

Terraform enables you to safely and predictably create, change, and improve infrastructure. It is a source-available tool that codifies APIs into declarative configuration files that can be shared amongst team members, treated as code, edited, reviewed, and versioned.

49.9k stars · 10.6k forks · Go

Healthy

Healthy: actively maintained by 25 people, no known risks.

Why

No rule fired.

What would change this

Partly checked: maintenance (Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.)
A dormant maintenance status, a deprecated or archived package, a successor link, or a critical advisory would change this.

Maintenance

Partial

Active

Human commits, 30 days: 179
Human commits, 90 days: 426
Human commits, 365 days: 1.3k
Bot share of commits, 365 days: 1%
Last commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Last human commit: Oct 13, 2026 (1 day ago)
Authors, 90 days: 25
Last release: Oct 14, 2026 (21 hours ago)
Median PR merge time: 5 hours

Responsiveness: of 28 recent issues, 61% got a maintainer reply. Median first response: 29 hours.

Commit counts are estimated: the commit sample stops before the window start, so GitHub's totals were scaled by the sampled bot share.

Sources: Commits, Releases, Merged pull requests, Issues

People

Complete

Owner: Organization
Commits sampled: 493 since Oct 14, 2025
Authors for half of commits: 2
Authors for 80% of commits: 5
Contributors: 350

Top committers

SarahFrench: 43% of commits
jbardin: 24% of commits
sebasslash: 5% of commits
dbanck: 4% of commits
austinvalle: 4% of commits

Shares come from the newest sampled commits, since the commit sample is capped.

Sources: Commits, Contributors

Stars

Complete

Mostly organic, confidence high

Bars show stars gained each week. Orange bars overlap a burst.

Bursts

Jul 28, 2014 to Aug 13, 2014: about 1.1k more stars than usual, peak 447 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks.
Oct 15, 2014 to Oct 16, 2014: about 31 more stars than usual, peak 21 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 12, 2019 to Dec 12, 2019: about 56 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 4, 2020 to Mar 5, 2020: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 52 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 23, 2020 to Jul 24, 2020: about 165 more stars than usual, peak 157 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in forks, a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jun 8, 2021 to Jun 11, 2021: about 419 more stars than usual, peak 187 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Jul 28, 2021 to Jul 30, 2021: about 88 more stars than usual, peak 62 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 13, 2021 to Aug 14, 2021: about 157 more stars than usual, peak 149 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 1, 2021 to Oct 2, 2021: about 137 more stars than usual, peak 134 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 25, 2021 to Nov 25, 2021: about 114 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 8, 2022 to Oct 8, 2022: about 69 more stars than usual, peak 81 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 29, 2022 to Oct 29, 2022: about 57 more stars than usual, peak 70 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 28, 2023 to Aug 31, 2023: about 149 more stars than usual, peak 79 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 17, 2023 to Nov 18, 2023: about 83 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Dec 6, 2023 to Dec 9, 2023: about 185 more stars than usual, peak 88 in one day, a shape we can't classify. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Feb 14, 2024 to Feb 16, 2024: about 173 more stars than usual, peak 104 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Sep 11, 2024 to Sep 12, 2024: about 108 more stars than usual, peak 95 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Nov 28, 2024 to Nov 30, 2024: about 237 more stars than usual, peak 127 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 3, 2025 to Jan 4, 2025: about 86 more stars than usual, peak 82 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jan 17, 2025 to Jan 24, 2025: about 307 more stars than usual, peak 101 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Mar 4, 2025 to Mar 7, 2025: about 293 more stars than usual, peak 119 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 10, 2025 to Jul 12, 2025: about 262 more stars than usual, peak 136 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.
Aug 14, 2025 to Aug 15, 2025: about 115 more stars than usual, peak 110 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Aug 28, 2025 to Aug 31, 2025: about 210 more stars than usual, peak 104 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Oct 18, 2025 to Oct 19, 2025: about 97 more stars than usual, peak 91 in one day, a spike that tapers off. Outside explanation: a jump in issues and pull requests.
Jul 10, 2026 to Jul 12, 2026: about 347 more stars than usual, peak 172 in one day, a spike that tapers off. No outside explanation found, so this burst is unexplained.

4 stars GitHub has since removed (tracked since Oct 13, 2026).

Anyone can buy stars for any repo; bursts alone don't prove the owner did.

Some star bursts have no matching forks, issues, releases, or launch coverage.
Anyone can buy stars for any repo, so this describes the star history only.

Sources: How star history is analyzed

Risk

Complete

Flags

No risk flags.

License

Now: BUSL-1.1 (not OSI-approved)
A year ago: BUSL-1.1 (not OSI-approved)

Packages

github.com/hashicorp/terraform (GO): latest v1.16.6, published Oct 14, 2026
Advisories for the latest version: none listed

Package and advisory data: deps.dev and OSV.

OpenSSF Scorecard: 6.6 out of 10 (via deps.dev).

Sources: GitHub: hashicorp/terraform, deps.dev: Go github.com/hashicorp/terraform

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Earlier verdicts

Oct 14, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy
Oct 13, 2026: Healthy

Computed 16 hours ago · method 2026.10.2