Configuring Terraform Cloud with the Terraform TFE provider

In the previous recipes of this chapter, we learned how to use projects, workspaces, and run tasks in Terraform Cloud using the web interface. In a company context, with large-scale infrastructure and a lot of Terraform Cloud organizations and workspaces, the manual actions to configure all of them can be difficult to maintain and need to be automatized.

To automate the configuration of Terraform Cloud, we can use a Terraform provider called TFE.

The TFE provider is specifically designed to configure and manage resources within Terraform Cloud (as well as Terraform Enterprise).

Here are a few reasons why you would use the TFE provider to configure Terraform Cloud:

• Integration with Terraform Cloud: The TFE provider allows you to interact with and configure Terraform Cloud resources directly from your Terraform configuration files. It provides a set of resources and data sources that map to various components...