Terraform Cloud
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What this topic is really about
Sentinel and Open Policy Agent (OPA) act as policy-as-code frameworks that evaluate Terraform plans against defined security and compliance rules before deployment. Option A is incorrect because while policies can evaluate costs, these tools are not restricted solely to cost forecasting.
HCP Terraform and Terraform Cloud provide a managed SaaS platform that centralizes state storage, executes runs in a consistent environment, and enforces Sentinel or OPA policies. It does not act as a general container runtime or a source code hosting service like GitHub.
See the mechanism
HCP Terraform and Terraform Cloud provide a managed SaaS platform that centralizes state storage, executes runs in a consistent environment, and enforces Sentinel or OPA policies. A diagram for this topic isn't available yet — the worked example below walks the same reasoning step by step.
An exam-style question, fully explained
Terraform Cloud / HCP Terraform provides:
- Identify what the question tests: Terraform Cloud / HCP Terraform provides:.
- HCP Terraform and Terraform Cloud provide a managed SaaS platform that centralizes state storage, executes runs in a consistent environment, and enforces Sentinel or OPA policies.
- It does not act as a general container runtime or a source code hosting service like GitHub.
Traps the examiner sets
- Option A is incorrect because while policies can evaluate costs, these tools are not restricted solely to cost forecasting.
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