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name: terraform description: "Terraform infrastructure-as-code workflow patterns: state and environments, module design, safe plan/apply, drift control, and CI guardrails" version: 1.0.0 category: universal author: Claude MPM Team license: MIT progressive_disclosure: entry_point: summary: "Manage infrastructure safely with Terraform: remote state, reproducible plans, reviewable changes, and guardrails" when_to_use: "When provisioning cloud or platform resources, standardizing environments, or building safe IaC workflows" quick_start: "1. Pin versions 2. terraform init/fmt/validate 3. Plan in CI 4. Review + approve 5. Apply with locking" token_estimate: entry: 140 full: 8000 context_limit: 900 tags:

• terraform
• iac
• infrastructure
• provisioning
• ci
• state requires_tools:
• terraform

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Terraform

Quick Start (workflow)

Copyterraform init
terraform plan -out=tfplan
terraform apply tfplan

Safety Checklist

• State: remote backend + locking; separate state per environment
• Reviews: plan in CI; apply from a trusted runner with approvals
• Guardrails: prevent_destroy and policy checks for prod

Load Next (References)

• references/state-and-environments.md — backends, locking, workspaces vs separate state, drift
• references/modules-and-composition.md — module interfaces, versioning, composition patterns
• references/workflows-and-guardrails.md — CI plan/apply, policy-as-code, safe migrations