Terraform Cloud Run Tasks are Now Generally Available

[Hashicorp]

When we talk to customers about why they choose Terraform Cloud, they often aim to increase their provisioning velocity across their organization. However, provisioning doesn’t happen in a vacuum. Different business units like Finance, Security, and Compliance must ensure that their goals are met any time a change is introduced to infrastructure. This often necessitates a pass-off to other teams for code review, which will slow DevOps teams down.

Policy as code speeds up this review process by enabling organizations to define requirements from these teams as code, which enables automated testing and automated deployment. Our customers have generally defined policy as code using custom policies written in the HashiCorp policy as code framework, Sentinel. We’re now opening up the Terraform Cloud workflow to other third-party security and compliance tools with run tasks, which are now generally available.

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