Access the Terraform Enterprise command line

Terraform Enterprise provides CLI commands via tfectl to change its configuration, stop the application safely, and produce support bundles.

Docker

To connect to the Docker container hosting Terraform Enterprise, execute the following command from the server where Terraform Enterprise is running. If you have named your container something other than terraform-enterprise please replace that with your container name.

$ docker exec -it terraform-enterprise bash

Kubernetes

Complete the following steps to connect to the Kubernetes pod hosting Terraform Enterprise:

1. Authenticate to the Kubernetes cluster by executing the relevant command.

   Authentication command

   AKSEKSGKE

   Authentication command

   AKSEKSGKE

   $ az aks get-credentials --resource-group <resource-group-name> --name <aks-cluster-name>
   

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   $ aws eks --region <region> update-kubeconfig --name <cluster-name>
   

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   $ gcloud container clusters get-credentials <gke-cluster-name> --project=<gcp-project>
   

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2. Retrieve the pod name by executing the following command.

   $ kubectl get pods -n <namespace>
   

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3. Execute the following command to remote into the pod.

   $ kubectl exec -n <namespace> -it <pod-name> -- bash 
   

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