2 years ago

Category: Business, Database, Terraform, Hashicorp, gitlab

A fully managed platform to automate infrastructure on any cloud with HashiCorp products. Explore the pros and cons of five different ways to manage credentials and other secrets in Terraform Cloud & Enterprise. There are several ways to manage credentials or other secret types in Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise, either natively, or with purpose-built secrets management utilities like HashiCorp Vault, so this is a somewhat opinionated article that lists what I believe are currently the best options. Please note this is not a replacement for some other best practices, such as keeping your Terraform CLI and code up to date.

There is no right answer or one-size-fits-all solution to managing your credentials and secrets within Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise.