Terraform Cloud

• Terraform Cloud allows teams to easily version, audit, and collaborate on infrastructure changes. It also securely stores variables, including API tokens and access keys, and provides a safe, stable environment for long-running Terraform processes.

• Example of terraform cloud configuration.

  terraform {
      // Cloud configuration
  
      backend "remote" {
          organization = "my_organization"
          workspaces {
            name = "Example-Workspace"
          }
      }
  
      //Provider configuration
      required_providers {
          aws = {
          source  = "hashicorp/aws"
          version = "~> 3.27"
          }
      }
  }
  

• Sign up for terraform cloud account and create an organization.

• Use terraform login command to login to the cloud account from the terminal. This will open a browser with access token. Copy the access token and paste it into the input prompt. (Note, while pasting input will be hidden).

• Once above steps are done, run terraform init to reinitialize the configuration and migrate/store the state to terraform cloud.

• Once migration is completed, delete the local state file, if it exists.

• Set up access key and secret tokens for you cloud provider in you terraform cloud organization under variables tab.

• Once access keys are configured, run terraform apply to trigger a run in terraform cloud.

• Note: terraform state is only loaded to memory when a terraform run is triggered.