7. Terraform Cloud & Enterprise Capabilities

Question 1

Overview of Terraform Cloud

• Terraform Cloud manages Terraform runs in a consistent and reliable environment with various features like access controls, private registry for sharing modules, policy controls, and others.
• Terraform Cloud is available as a hosted service at https://app.terraform.io.
• Terraform Cloud can be managed from the CLI but requires an API token which can be generated in the Terraform Cloud UI.

Question 2

Overview of Sentinel

• Sentinel is an embedded policy-as-code framework integrated with the HashiCorp Enterprise products.
• It enables fine-grained, logic-based policy decisions, and can be extended to use information from external sources.
• Note: Sentinel policies are paid feature

Question 3

Terraform OS, Cloud and Enterprise

• roles and team management represents a feature of Terraform Cloud that is NOT free to customers.
• In Terraform Enterprise, a workspace can only be configured to a single VCS repo. However, multiple workspaces can use the same repo, if needed.
• A Terraform Enterprise install that is provisioned on a network that does not have Internet access is generally known as an air-gapped install. These types of installs require you to pull updates, providers, etc. from external sources vs. being able to download them directly.

Question 4

Terraform Cloud VCS providers

• GitHub
• GitHub.com (OAuth)
• GitHub Enterprise
• GitLab.com
• GitLab EE and CE
• Bitbucket Cloud
• Bitbucket Server
• Azure DevOps Server
• Azure DevOps Services