Generate an Access Token for Terraform

Natively run the Terraform login to your Artifactory domain to generate an access token and save it in the Credentials file ( ~/.terraform.d/credentials.tfrc.json.). When you run the login, the following page opens.

The Terraform command line login process is displayed.

You are routed to the JFrog Platform login page and the following page opens.

Click Approve. The following message is displayed.

Close the page and return to the command line to view the success message.

Next, perform a one-time edit to the  ~/.terraformrc file to ensure that the CLI searches for the providers only in the Artifactory. For this purpose, we recommend only pointing to the Terraform Virtual repository.

Generate an identity token that you can use to connect Artifactory to the Terraform CLI. For more details, please refer to User Profile - Identity Token.User Profile

Create a file named 'credentials.tfrc.json~/.terraformrc' in your Terraform directory, ('~/.terraform.d/credentials.tfrc.json ').

Update the identity token you generated in the credentials.tfrc.json file, as in the example below:

#cat ~/.terraform.d/credentials.tfrc.json
 
{
    "credentials": {
        "ARTIFACTORY-DOMAIN": {
            "token": "IDENTITY-TOKEN"
            }
        }
    }