Exploring Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector

  • Release version: Xanadu
  • Updated August 1, 2024
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    Summary of Exploring Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector

    The Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector allows you to efficiently provision and manage cloud resources across various environments by integrating with the Cloud Provisioning and Governance application. It enables you to create or update catalog items from Terraform templates for seamless cloud resource provisioning.

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    Key Features

    • Discover Terraform templates and workspaces from your Terraform environment.
    • Create catalog items directly from the Terraform templates.
    • Detect changes in Terraform templates and utilize the IaC change task workflow to update catalog items.
    • Support for multiple repositories including public and self-hosted GitHub, GitLab, and Azure DevOps.
    • Specify metadata to enhance catalog item forms, improving user experience.
    • Reduce Terraform Cloud licensing costs by leveraging discovered Terraform workspaces for resource provisioning.
    • Support for Terraform Open Source, Terraform Enterprise, and Terraform Cloud, with OpenTofu compatibility available.

    Key Outcomes

    Through the use of the Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector, you can expect streamlined management of cloud resources, cost efficiency through workspace reuse, and enhanced governance capabilities via catalog items. The connector also allows for adaptability as it detects and manages changes in your Terraform templates, ensuring your cloud infrastructure remains up-to-date and efficient.

    Whether you're starting or expanding your implementation of Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector, learn more about the available features that help in provisioning and managing cloud resources across various public and private clouds.

    The Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector integrates with the Cloud Provisioning and Governance application and helps you to create or update catalog items from the Terraform templates. Then, you can use the catalog items to provision the cloud resources.

    Key features of Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector

    • Discover the Terraform templates and workspaces from the Terraform environment.
    • Create catalog items from the Terraform templates.
    • Detect changes in the Terraform template and use the IaC change task workflow to update the catalog item.
    • Utilize the multi-repo support.
    • Specify metadata to populate the catalog item form fields and values.
    • Reduce the Terraform Cloud license cost by using the discovered Terraform workspaces to provision the cloud infrastructure.
    Use Terraform as a configuration provider

    Use the Terraform Open Source, Terraform Enterprise, and Terraform Cloud config provider to provision resources in the following clouds.

    Starting this release, you can use OpenTofu with Cloud Provisioning and Governance. You must have admin rights to configure the alias name for Terraform Open Source at the vm host level.
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    • Microsoft Azure
    • Google Cloud Provider
    • VMware vSphere
    • IBM Cloud Platform (Deprecated)

    In addition, you can use the Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector to provision resources to the Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) through the Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Oracle Cloud (OCI) Add-On for Terraform Connector app. For more information, see Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Oracle Cloud (OCI) Add-On for Terraform Connector.

    Starting with Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector version 1.5.2, the app doesn't support provisioning resources to the IBM Cloud Platform.

    Discover the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates
    Use Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector to discover the IaC (Terraform) templates from the Terraform environment. Terraform Enterprise or Terraform Cloud organizations use various Version Control Systems to store the Terraform templates. Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector can discover the templates stored in the following VCS:
    • Public and self-hosted GitHub
    • Public and self-hosted GitLab
    • Public and self-hosted Microsoft Azure DevOps
    For more information, see Run the IaC Discovery.
    Utilize the hierarchical structure of multiple repositories with the support of Terraform Connector IaC discovery capabilities.
    Create catalog items from the Terraform templates
    Use the Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector app to create catalog items from the discovered Terraform templates and use them to provision resources in various clouds. For more information, see Create a catalog item from the Terraform template.
    Detect changes in the Terraform templates
    Use IaC Discovery to detect changes in the Terraform templates that are used in existing catalog items. When Cloud Provisioning and Governance: Terraform Connector detects a change in the Terraform template, it creates an IaC change task. You can use the IaC change task to update the affected catalog item or deactivate it, and then create another catalog item from the updated Terraform template. For more information on the catalog item change task, see Manage the Terraform template-based catalog items.
    Reduce Terraform Cloud license cost
    Use the discovered Terraform workspaces to provision the catalog items from the Terraform templates. Reusing workspace helps you to manage the Terraform Cloud license cost by avoiding the creation of workspaces.