Terraform Tutorial — Terraform Cloud & Enterprise

Terraform Cloud (HCP Terraform) and Terraform Enterprise bring collaboration, governance, and automation to your Terraform workflow.

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Terraform Cloud vs Enterprise

Feature	Cloud (Free)	Cloud (Plus)	Enterprise
Remote state	✅	✅	✅
Remote runs	✅	✅	✅
VCS integration	✅	✅	✅
Team management	Limited	✅	✅
Sentinel policies	❌	✅	✅
Audit logging	❌	✅	✅
SSO/SAML	❌	✅	✅
Self-hosted	❌	❌	✅
Private network	❌	❌	✅

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Key Features

Remote State Management

Store and share state securely without managing S3 backends:

terraform {
  cloud {
    organization = "my-org"
    workspaces {
      name = "my-app-prod"
    }
  }
}

Sentinel Policy as Code

Enforce governance rules before infrastructure changes apply:

# Only allow t3 instance types
import "tfplan/v2" as tfplan

main = rule {
  all tfplan.resource_changes as _, rc {
    rc.type is "aws_instance" implies
      rc.change.after.instance_type matches "t3.*"
  }
}

Run Triggers

Automatically trigger downstream workspaces when upstream infrastructure changes.

Cost Estimation

See estimated monthly costs before applying changes.

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Getting Started

# Login to Terraform Cloud
$ terraform login

# Initialize with cloud backend
$ terraform init

# Plan and apply runs remotely
$ terraform plan
$ terraform apply

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