A company wants to integrate HCP Terraform with their existing CI/CD pipeline to enforce policy checks before infrastructure changes are applied. What is the primary benefit of this integration?

It allows policy checks to run as part of the pipeline, ensuring compliance before changes are applied.

It replaces the need for manual approval in the pipeline.

It automatically fixes any policy violations in the configuration.

It eliminates the need for a separate version control system.

A team uses HCP Terraform with a VCS-driven workflow. They want to automatically run a workspace that provisions a test environment whenever the 'infra-dev' workspace successfully applies changes. What should they configure?

A policy set that runs the test environment workspace after 'infra-dev'.

A notification on the 'infra-dev' workspace that sends a webhook to the test environment workspace.

A VCS webhook on the 'infra-dev' repository that also triggers the test environment workspace.

A run trigger on the test environment workspace that watches the 'infra-dev' workspace.

An external system needs to trigger a Terraform run in HCP Terraform and then wait for the run to complete before proceeding. What is the recommended way to achieve this?

Use a run trigger to start the run and then wait for the next run.

Use the API to create a run, then poll the run's status until it reaches a terminal state.

Use the CLI to run `terraform apply` and rely on the exit code.

Configure a webhook to notify the external system when the run completes.

A company uses GitHub Actions to deploy infrastructure. They want to use HCP Terraform's API to trigger a run and then have the pipeline wait for the plan to complete before proceeding to a manual approval step. What is the best way to pass the plan results back to the pipeline?

Use the CLI to run `terraform plan` and capture the output.

Use a webhook to send the plan results to the pipeline.

Configure a run trigger to start a downstream workspace that runs the approval.

Poll the run status via the API until it reaches 'planned', then fetch the plan output.

What is the primary mechanism for triggering a Terraform run in an API-driven workflow with HCP Terraform?

Executing a `terraform apply` command from a local machine without any configuration.

Creating a new branch in the connected VCS repository.

Sending an HTTP POST request to the HCP Terraform API to create a run.

Sending an email to the HCP Terraform support team with the run details.

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A company wants to integrate HCP Terraform with their existing CI/CD pipeline to enforce policy checks before infrastructure changes are applied. What is the primary benefit of this integration?
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22application · medium
A team uses HCP Terraform with a VCS-driven workflow. They want to automatically run a workspace that provisions a test environment whenever the 'infra-dev' workspace successfully applies changes. What should they configure?
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23application · medium
An external system needs to trigger a Terraform run in HCP Terraform and then wait for the run to complete before proceeding. What is the recommended way to achieve this?
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24application · medium
A company uses GitHub Actions to deploy infrastructure. They want to use HCP Terraform's API to trigger a run and then have the pipeline wait for the plan to complete before proceeding to a manual approval step. What is the best way to pass the plan results back to the pipeline?
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What is the primary mechanism for triggering a Terraform run in an API-driven workflow with HCP Terraform?
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