--- title: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Join the... description: OpenTofu Day returns as a co-located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City on November 9. The single-track day brings together... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2026-join-the-cloud-native-community-at-opentofu-day-ys8u5x6uh twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Join the cloud native community at OpenTofu Day | daily.dev og:description: OpenTofu Day returns as a co-located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City on November 9. The single-track day brings together... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2026-join-the-cloud-native-community-at-opentofu-day-ys8u5x6uh og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YS8u5x6uh.png og:image:alt: KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Join the cloud native community at OpenTofu Day og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Join the cloud native community at OpenTofu Day **[CNCF](https://daily.dev/sources/cncf)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary OpenTofu Day returns as a co-located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City on November 9. The single-track day brings together OpenTofu's core maintainers and production users to discuss migrating from Terraform, scaling and instrumenting OpenTofu, and running it within platform engineering teams. The project has grown into a CNCF Sandbox project with over 10 million downloads and recent features like client-side state encryption, for_each on provider configurations, and OCI registry support. Sessions target DevOps engineers, platform engineers, and infrastructure leaders evaluating or already running a Terraform-to-OpenTofu migration. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What new features has OpenTofu added recently, like state encryption or OCI registry support? OpenTofu has added client-side state encryption, for_each support on provider configurations, and OCI registry support as recent capabilities. The project has grown from a Terraform fork into a CNCF Sandbox project with more than 10 million downloads as of October 2026, and is designed as a drop-in replacement for Terraform's CLI. _Teams weighing a Terraform-to-OpenTofu switch can follow feature updates like these on daily.dev._ ### When and where is OpenTofu Day happening at KubeCon North America 2026? OpenTofu Day takes place on November 9, 2026, in Salt Lake City, Utah, as a co-located single-track event alongside KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026. OpenTofu's core maintainers attend the full day, including a state-of-the-project update and an Ask the Devs panel, plus practitioner talks on migrating from Terraform and running OpenTofu at scale. _Infrastructure teams planning conference travel can track event details like this on daily.dev._ ### What are the trade-offs between keeping existing Terraform workflows versus re-platforming when migrating to OpenTofu? Platform engineers generally choose between two paths: swapping the engine underneath existing pipelines, state management, policy, and access controls with minimal disruption, or using the migration as an opportunity to redesign how infrastructure changes are delivered. Each path carries different trade-offs in risk, effort, and long-term flexibility, and the right choice depends on the organization's specific needs. _Platform engineers deciding how to migrate off Terraform can weigh these trade-offs through daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026 Co-located Event Deep Dive: OpenTofu Day](https://daily.dev/posts/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-co-located-event-deep-dive-opentofu-day-ugr320qr8) · CNCF · 6 upvotes · 0 comments - [KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon North America 2025 Guide](https://daily.dev/posts/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2025-guide-2fbiswmsw) · Spacelift · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon Europe 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/kubecon-cloudnativecon-europe-2026-sz5x4ltzk) · OpenTelemetry · 4 upvotes · 0 comments - [Observability Day: Where the community comes together at KubeCon \+ CloudNativeCon North America 2026](https://daily.dev/posts/observability-day-where-the-community-comes-together-at-kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2026-pcxxnnrqf) · CNCF · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#kubernetes](https://daily.dev/tags/kubernetes), [#terraform](https://daily.dev/tags/terraform), [#iac](https://daily.dev/tags/iac), [#platform-engineering](https://daily.dev/tags/platform-engineering), [#opentofu](https://daily.dev/tags/opentofu) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2026-join-the-cloud-native-community-at-opentofu-day-ys8u5x6uh) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026: Join the cloud native community at OpenTofu Day","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2026-join-the-cloud-native-community-at-opentofu-day-ys8u5x6uh","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/kubecon-cloudnativecon-north-america-2026-join-the-cloud-native-community-at-opentofu-day-ys8u5x6uh"},"datePublished":"2026-10-02T15:26:07.431Z","dateModified":"2026-10-07T23:07:20.347Z","description":"OpenTofu Day returns as a co-located event at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026 in Salt Lake City on November 9. 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