Provider
HCP provider for Terraform
Use the HCP provider for Terraform to query images in your Terraform configurations rather than hard-coding them.
Use case
Integrate with Terraform
Create multi-cloud golden image pipelines with HCP Packer and Terraform Cloud.
Challenge
Image management needs to move at the speed of deployment
Terraform enables teams to dynamically provision multi-cloud self-service infrastructure. But how do your teams keep track of and update images used within these provisioning pipelines? How do you know that all image artifacts provisioned are secure, compliant, and up-to-date?
Solution
Bridge the gap between image factories and image deployments
Use Terraform to launch completely provisioned and configured machine instances with Packer images in seconds. By provisioning instances from stable images installed and configured by Packer, you can ensure buggy software does not get deployed. With the HCP provider for Terraform, the Packer data source allows teams to codify images in Terraform configuration files rather than hard-coding them.
Tutorials
Provision infrastructure with Packer
Create a customized image using Packer, then deploy this image using Terraform.
Set up Terraform Cloud run task for HCP Packer
Set up the Terraform Cloud run task integration with HCP Packer, which validates that the machine images in your Terraform configuration are not revoked.
Identify compromised images with Terraform Cloud
Use the Terraform Cloud run task for HCP Packer to prevent your Terraform configuration from referencing revoked image iterations.
