🗻HashiCorp Cloud Platform (formerly Terraform Cloud)
Setting up Terraform Cloud VCS Integration
Terraform Cloud allows you to manage Terraform runs in a consistent and reliable environment instead of on your local machine.
Resourcely leverages Terraform Cloud in order to:
Use Terraform in a consistent and reliable environment
Easily access shared state and secret data
Run Terraform within a repository using CI/CD
If you don't currently have a Terraform Cloud account, you can set one up using the following tutorial:
Once you have access to Terraform Cloud you must configure as stated below.
Configuring Terraform Cloud for Resourcely
Once you have a Terraform Cloud account you must configure it for use with Resourcely by performing the following:
Adding External Cloud Provider Credentials
Creating a new Workspace
Generating a Team Token
Adding External Cloud Provider Credentials
In order to provision resources using Resourcely, you must have permission to actually generate cloud resources using Terraform. This requires access to a cloud provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), or Microsoft Azure.
You can create a credential variable set by going through the following guide:
Creating a new Workspace (Version Control Integration)
Workspaces determine how Terraform Cloud organizes infrastructure. A workspace contains your Terraform configuration (infrastructure as code), shared variable values, your current and historical Terraform state, and run logs.
You must create a Version control workflow that stores your Terraform configuration in your git repos and triggers run based on pull requests and merges. See the following documentation to learn more:
Adding the Version control workflow will enable Terraform plans to run whenever a code change is made within a branch. Resourcely will use that plan in order to validate guardrails before the infrastructure can be provisioned.
Generating Team API Token
Team API tokens are used by services, for example, a CI/CD pipeline, to perform plans and apply them on a workspace. Resourcely uses the token in order to verify the Terraform plan.
See the following documentation to learn how to generate a Team API Token:
An organization token is not valid and cannot be used to access a terraform plan which will cause a plan detection error when using the Resourcely CI/CD Job.
Be sure to save your token in a safe place, you will need to refer to it when setting up the Resourcely CI/CD job.
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