Get Started - Terraform Cloud

26 min7 tutorials

Collaborate on version-controlled configuration using Terraform Cloud. Follow this track to build, change, and destroy infrastructure using remote runs and state.

Sign up for Terraform Cloud

Sign up for Terraform Cloud, which provides free remote state storage, a stable run environment, version control system (VCS) driven plans and applies, a collaborative web GUI, and more. Create your first organization.

3 min

Create a Workspace

Create a Terraform Cloud workspace. Fork a demonstration GitHub repo containing Terraform configuration to generate a randomly-named Amazon DynamoDB table. Connect the repo to Terraform Cloud.

3 min

Create Infrastructure

Configure a Terraform Cloud workspace with Cloud credentials by setting environment variables. Set DynamoDB read and write capacity with Terraform variables. Create the database by planning and applying a run in Terraform Cloud.

4 min

Change Infrastructure

Queue a speculative plan by opening a pull request. Inspect the plan and merge the PR to automatically queue a Terraform Cloud run. Confirm and apply the changes. Edit variables and manually apply changes via the Terraform Cloud web UI.

5 min

Clean Up the Resources and Workspace

Destroy the resources in a Terraform Cloud workspace, and delete the workspace via the web UI.

3 min

Team & Governance

Enforce a Policy

Create a version-controlled policy to check the Terraform version using Sentinel, a policy-as-code platform. Fork a demo repo, connect the policy to Terraform Cloud, and queue a plan to test the policy.

5 min

Team & Governance

Control Costs with Policies

Turn on cost estimation in your Terraform Cloud organization. Write a soft-mandatory policy against example infrastructure to limit its cost to less than one hundred dollars a month.

3 min

Infrastructure

Security

Networking

Applications

Sign up for Terraform Cloud

Create a Workspace

Create Infrastructure

Change Infrastructure

Clean Up the Resources and Workspace

Enforce a Policy

Control Costs with Policies