Terraform Cloud (TFC)

Terraform Cloud is available since September 2019. It is free, no credit card needed, up to 5 users. On premise option is available using Terraform Enterprise software.

• VCS Connection: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps
• Controlled remote state Access (May 2021) feature in Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise, users now have a new way to establish granular controls for state accessibility.
• Execution modes: Remote / local
• Auto apply: on / off
• Secret storage
• RBAC (Role Based Access Control) (Paid feature)
• Cost estimation (Related: aws cloudformation estimate-template-cost)
• Export audit logs to external systems via an API, or export their outputs into Splunk

Pricing

https://www.hashicorp.com/products/terraform/pricing

• Free: Private module registry
• Team & Governance: Team management, Sentinel
• Business: Terraform Cloud Agents

Sign up: HCP acccount or email

Terraform Cloud getting started

terraform login 
git clone https://github.com/hashicorp/tfc-getting-started.git 
cd tfc-getting-started && ./scripts/setup.sh

Related terms

• terraform login
• Sentinel
• Terraform Cloud Business tier integrates with Okta, AzureAD, or any other SAML 2.0 compliant Identity
• Terraform variables: https://www.terraform.io/cloud-docs/workspaces/variables
• Organization
• Terraform registry: private

Activities

• Read about Terraform Cloud Run Triggers (Feb 2020) https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/creating-infrastructure-pipelines-with-terraform-cloud-run-triggers/

See also

• Terraform Cloud, Terraform Cloud Agents (Business version), terraform login, execution modes, terraform_remote_state, Terraform cloud block, Terraform Cloud Workflows, Terraform organization
• Terraform, Terraform AWS, Terraform GCP, Terraform commands, Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise (TFE), HCL, HIL, meta-arguments, providers, modules, resource, provisioners, data sources, backends: remote backends, examples, configuration files, state files, variables, types, Terraform Registry, conditionals: depends_on, functions, Blocks, dynamic blocks, errors, Terragrunt, Terraformer, Terratest, Terraform certifications, Terraform map type, Terraform Associate, Terraform: list type, TF_VAR_, TF_LOG, Terraform provider versioning, Terraform Style Conventions, Required version, Terraform plugin, Terraform Named Values, tags, Changelog, tfsec, tflint, Operators, Expressions: for, splat, Debugging, Namespaces

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-terraform-cloud

https://www.hashicorp.com/blog/announcing-controlled-remote-state-access-for-terraform-cloud-and-enterprise