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What is Terraform Cloud and How do I Use It?
A simplified guide to understanding the HashiCorp Terraform Cloud, and how to use it, as an individual or an organization!
Are you curious about Terraform Cloud? A budding organization considering using a more centralized platform for your infrastructure as code (IaC) needs? An established organization wondering if you should consider another SaaS platform for your IaC needs?
What is Terraform Cloud?
HashiCorp’s Terraform Cloud is a SaaS product that builds on Terraform’s features but in a centralized, consistent, and reliable environment. HashiCorp will manage the platform while you take advantage of features like infrastructure as code, enforcing policy on resource creation, and cloud cost savings, to name a few.
How does it differ from Terraform Open Source (OSS)?
As your organization grows, effective collaboration between developers and teams, centralized state management and state locking, budgeting resources, and ensuring security risks are identified early using policy enforcement is CRUCIAL for secure, reliable, and steady infrastructure as code practices.
To mention a few, Terraform Cloud offers the following advantages over the Terraform OSS, especially when working in a growing or…
