OpenTofu, SHA256SUMS Signed By OpenTofu's Key

tofu on EL 10 from the GitHub release. The role imports OpenTofu's OpenPGP key into a GnuPG home of its own, refuses a keyring whose fingerprint is not the pinned one, verifies the SHA256SUMS signature, and only then lets Ansible's get_url check the zip against that file. The live test re-verifies the signature and runs tofu init. Original role, live-tested on Rocky Linux 10.

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Verification

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Really deployed to a container sandbox, proven idempotent (a second run changes nothing), verified against the role’s assertions, then torn down.

Conformance

  • Static validation (yamllint · ansible-lint)

Provenance

  • SHA-256 checksum
  • Signature (pending)

Functional

  • Live-tested - applied, verified, destroyed

Last verified 2026-09-20 · podman 4.9.3 · ansible 2.21.4 · how we verify

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```yaml
# OpenTofu, SHA256SUMS Signed By OpenTofu's Key: https://www.iac-bazaar.com/catalog/ansible-opentofu (download from your IaC Bazaar account)
```

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Documentation

opentofu

OpenTofu tofu on EL 10 from the vendor's release, checked against the published SHA-256 and the vendor's signature on it, pinned to a version, installed as root's binary in /usr/local/bin. Original role for EL 10, live-tested with podman on Rocky Linux 10.

No package worth the name. EL 10 carries no tofu, and a third-party repository is one more key to trust. This role takes the release from github.com/opentofu/opentofu, has Ansible's get_url refuse the asset unless its SHA-256 is the published one, and the live test checks the asset on disk against the same published value again.

The checksum file is signed, and the signature is checked first. OpenTofu signs tofu_1.12.6_SHA256SUMS; the role ships OpenTofu's public key (E3E6 E43D 84CB 852E ADB0 051D 0C0A F313 E5FD 9F80), imports it into a GnuPG home of its own under /usr/local/src, asserts that fingerprint, and verifies the signature before get_url is allowed to trust the file. The live test re-verifies the signature and asserts the home holds exactly the expected key(s).

Pinned. opentofu_version is what gets installed, kept in a directory of its own so the checksum file and the asset it names stay together. A newer release is a variable change and a run; the same version is changed=0.

Proven to run. The live test runs tofu -chdir=/tmp init -no-color and expects "OpenTofu initialized in an empty directory" - the binary ran all the way to the point where it needed something this host does not have.

The key's name is misleading, and the release verifies anyway. The key at get.opentofu.org/opentofu.asc carries the user id "This key is used to sign opentofu providers"; it is also what signs tofu_<version>_SHA256SUMS.gpgsig, and gpg --verify reports a good signature from it. OpenTofu also publishes cosign .sig/.pem pairs; this role checks the OpenPGP signature. tofu init in a directory with no configuration is the live test's proof that the binary runs: it says "initialized in an empty directory" and exits 0.

License

Commercial - IaC Bazaar EULA. (c) IaC Bazaar.

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