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»Network Requirements for Terraform Enterprise

The Linux instance that runs Terraform Enterprise must allow several kinds of incoming network access. Terraform Enterprise also needs to access several external services to handle updates and resource downloads.

»Ingress

»Source — User/Client/VCS

  • 80: Terraform Enterprise application access (HTTP; redirects to HTTPS)
  • 443: Terraform Enterprise application access (HTTPS)

Important: Integration with a SaaS VCS provider (GitHub.com, GitLab.com, Bitbucket Cloud, or Azure DevOps Services) requires ingress from the public internet. This lets the inbound web hooks reach Terraform Enterprise. You should also configure appropriate security controls, such as a Web Application Firewall (WAF).

»Source — Administrators

  • 22: SSH access (administration and debugging)
  • 8800: Replicated (TFE setup dashboard, HTTPS)

»Source — TFE Server(s)

  • 8201: Vault HA request forwarding (only necessary when operating in Active/Active mode)

Additionally, the following ports are used by various application components internally. This list serves as a point of reference; it is not necessary to expose these ports for accessibility in a firewall:

  • 2003: Graphite (Carbon) feeding port (monitoring, metrics)
  • 2004: Graphite (Carbon) feeding port (monitoring, metrics)
  • 3121: TFE private registry
  • 4150-4151, 4160-4161, 4170-4171: Replicated NSQD (messaging platform daemon for internal communication)
  • 5432: PostgreSQL
  • 5672: RabbitMQ TFE worker coordination
  • 6379: Redis (application-level caching and coordination)
  • 7586: TFE ingress (pulls in version control system data for application, stores it via Archivist)
  • 7588: TFE state parser
  • 7675: TFE Archivist (stores data in object storage, encrypts it via Vault)
  • 8086: InfluxDB default UDP Service (monitoring, metrics)
  • 8125: StatsD (monitoring, metrics)
  • 8200: Vault (encryption service)
  • 9292: Atlas engine (old name of TFE engine)
  • 9870-9880 (inclusive): host and subnet traffic only; not publicly accessible
    • 9873: Replicated Retraced engine API (Replicated audit subcomponent)
    • 9874-9879: Replicated entry point span
  • 23000-23100 (inclusive): host and subnet traffic only; not publicly accessible
    • 23005: TFE health check point
    • 23020: Nomad (scheduler for Sentinel runs)
  • 32774-32776: Replicated internal Graphite and StatsD ports (mapped to external ports 2003, 2004, and 8125)

»Egress

»Destination - Online Installations

If Terraform Enterprise is installed in online mode, it accesses the following hostnames to get software updates:

Additionally, the following hostnames are accessed unless a custom Terraform bundle is supplied:

Note: Airgapped installs do not check for updates over the network.

»Destination - Additional Outbound Network Targets

Terraform Enterprise also needs egress access to:

  • any VCS servers/services that will be utilized
  • login/authentication servers if SAML will be configured (ADFS, Okta, etc)
  • the various cloud API endpoints that will be managed with Terraform
  • any other third party services that will either be integrated with the Terraform Enteprise server or managed with it.

»Destination - Cost Estimation APIs

When Cost Estimation is enabled, it uses the respective cloud provider's APIs to get up-to-date pricing info.

Note: Versions of Terraform Enterprise earlier than v202105-1 used management.azure.com and ratecard.azure-api.net rather than prices.azure.com.

»Other Configuration

  1. If a firewall is configured on the instance, run one of the following to allow traffic to flow out of the docker0 interface to the instance's primary address. We recommend doing this before you install Docker.

    • To use UFW, run: ufw allow in on docker0
    • To use firewalld, run: firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=trusted --change-interface=docker0

  2. Get a domain name for the instance. Using an IP address to access the product is not supported as many systems use TLS and need to verify that the certificate is correct, which can only be done with a hostname at present.

  3. For GCP only: Configure Docker to use an MTU (maximum transmission unit) of 1460, as required by Google (GCP Cloud VPN Documentation: MTU Considerations).

    To configure Docker's MTU, create an /etc/docker/daemon.json file with the following content:

    {
  "mtu": 1460
}

    {
  "mtu": 1460
}

  4. Ensure the Docker bridge network address is not in use elsewhere on the network. If it is, please refer to the Docker documentation for information on how to change it.

Note: Beginning in version v202004-1, non-default Docker networks named tfe_services and tfe_terraform_isolation were added for the Terraform Enterprise component Docker containers as part of a network segmentation update. Custom configuration may be required for MTU settings.