Managing Credentials in Terraform Cloud & Enterprise

This article discusses the pros and cons of managing credentials and secrets in Terraform Cloud and Enterprise, highlighting five different approaches using Terraform workspaces, Terraform Agents, HashiCorp Vault, direct integration with a Vault plugin, and CI/CD integrations. It emphasizes the importance of considering security principles, such as uniqueness, ease of rotation, dynamism, and protection with Role-Based Access Control (RBAC). The article also notes that each approach has its strengths and weaknesses, and that there is no one-size-fits-all solution for managing credentials and secrets in Terraform Cloud and Enterprise.