» Terraform Enterprise API Documentation

Terraform Enterprise (TFE) provides an API for a subset of its features. If you have any questions or want to request new API features, please email support@hashicorp.com.

See the navigation sidebar for the list of available endpoints.

» Authentication

All requests must be authenticated with a bearer token. Use the HTTP header Authorization with the value Bearer <token>. If the token is absent or invalid, TFE responds with HTTP status 401 and a JSON API error object. The 401 status code is reserved for problems with the authentication token; forbidden requests with a valid token result in a 404.

There are three kinds of token available:

• User tokens — each TFE user can have any number of API tokens, which can make requests on their behalf.
• Team tokens — each team has an associated service account, which can have one API token at a time. This is intended for performing plans and applies via a CI/CD pipeline.
• Organization tokens — each organization also has a service account, which can have one API token at a time. This is intended for automating the management of teams, team membership, and workspaces. The organization token cannot perform plans and applies.

» Feature Entitlements

TFE is available at multiple pricing tiers (including free), which offer different subsets of TFE's features.

Each organization has a set of entitlements that corresponds to its pricing tier. These entitlements determine which TFE features the organization can use.

If an organization doesn't have the necessary entitlement to use a given feature, TFE returns a 404 error for API requests to any endpoints devoted to that feature.

The show entitlement set endpoint can return information about an organization's current entitlements, which is useful if your client needs to change its interface when a given feature isn't available.

The following entitlements are available:

• state-storage — Allows an organization to store state versions in its workspaces, which enables local Terraform runs with the remote backend. Affects the state versions endpoints.
• operations — Allows an organization to perform runs within TFE. Affects the runs, plans, and applies endpoints.
• vcs-integrations — Allows an organization to connect with a VCS provider and link VCS repositories to workspaces. Affects the OAuth Clients, and OAuth Tokens endpoints, and determines whether the data.attributes.vcs-repo property can be set for workspaces.
• sentinel — Allows an organization to use Sentinel. Affects the policies, policy sets, and policy checks endpoints.
• private-module-registry — Allows an organization to publish and use modules with the private module registry. Affects the registry modules endpoints.
• teams — Allows an organization to manage access to its workspaces with teams. Without this entitlement, an organization only has an owners team. Affects the teams, team members, team access, and team tokens endpoints.

» Response Codes

This API returns standard HTTP response codes.

We return 404 Not Found codes for resources that a user doesn't have access to, as well as for resources that don't exist. This is to avoid telling a potential attacker that a given resource exists.

» Versioning

The API documented in these pages is the second version of TFE's API, and resides under the /v2 prefix. For documentation of the /v1 endpoints, see the Terraform Enterprise (legacy) API docs.

Future APIs will increment this version, leaving the /v1 API intact, though in the future we might deprecate certain features. In that case, we'll provide ample notice to migrate to the new API.

» Paths

All V2 API endpoints use /api/v2 as a prefix unless otherwise specified.

For example, if the API endpoint documentation defines the path /runs then the full path is /api/v2/runs.

» JSON API Formatting

The TFE endpoints use the JSON API specification, which specifies key aspects of the API. Most notably:

• HTTP error codes
• Error objects
• Document structure
• HTTP request/response headers

» JSON API Documents

Since our API endpoints use the JSON API spec, most of them return JSON API documents.

Endpoints that use the POST method also require a JSON API document as the request payload. A request object usually looks something like this:

{
  "data": {
    "type":"vars",
    "attributes": {
      "key":"some_key",
      "value":"some_value",
      "category":"terraform",
      "hcl":false,
      "sensitive":false
    },
    "relationships": {
      "workspace": {
        "data": {
          "id":"ws-4j8p6jX1w33MiDC7",
          "type":"workspaces"
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

These objects always include a top-level data property, which:

• Must have a type property to indicate what type of API object you're interacting with.
• Often has an attributes property to specify attributes of the object you're creating or modifying.
• Sometimes has a relationships property to specify other objects that are linked to what you're working with.

In the documentation for each API method, we use dot notation to explain the structure of nested objects in the request. For example, the properties of the request object above are listed as follows:

We also always include a sample payload object, to show the document structure more visually.

» Query Parameters

Although most of our API endpoints use the POST method and receive their parameters as a JSON object in the request payload, some of them use the GET method. These GET endpoints sometimes require URL query parameters, in the standard ...path?key1=value1&key2=value2 format.

Since these parameters were originally designed as part of a JSON object, they sometimes have characters that must be percent-encoded in a query parameter. For example, [ becomes %5B and ] becomes %5D.

For more about URI structure and query strings, see the specification (RFC 3986) or the Wikipedia page on URIs.

» Pagination

Most of the endpoints that return lists of objects support pagination. A client may pass the following query parameters to control pagination on supported endpoints:

Additional data is returned in the links and meta top level attributes of the response.

{
  "data": [...],
  "links": {
    "self": "https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organizations/hashicorp/workspaces?page%5Bnumber%5D=1&page%5Bsize%5D=20",
    "first": "https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organizations/hashicorp/workspaces?page%5Bnumber%5D=1&page%5Bsize%5D=20",
    "prev": null,
    "next": "https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organizations/hashicorp/workspaces?page%5Bnumber%5D=2&page%5Bsize%5D=20",
    "last": "https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/organizations/hashicorp/workspaces?page%5Bnumber%5D=2&page%5Bsize%5D=20"
  },
  "meta": {
    "pagination": {
      "current-page": 1,
      "prev-page": null,
      "next-page": 2,
      "total-pages": 2,
      "total-count": 21
    }
  }
}

» Inclusion of Related Resources

Some of the API's GET endpoints can return additional information about nested resources by adding an include query parameter, whose value is a comma-separated list of resource types.

The related resource options are listed in each endpoint's documentation where available.

The related resources will appear in an included section of the response.

Example:

$ curl \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
  --header "Content-Type: application/vnd.api+json" \
  --request GET \
  https://app.terraform.io/api/v2/teams/team-n8UQ6wfhyym25sMe?include=users

{
  "data": {
    "id": "team-n8UQ6wfhyym25sMe",
    "type": "teams",
    "attributes": {
      "name": "owners",
      "users-count": 1
      ...
    },
    "relationships": {
      "users": {
        "data": [
          {
              "id": "user-62goNpx1ThQf689e",
              "type": "users"
          }
        ]
      } ...
    }
    ...
  },
  "included": [
    {
      "id": "user-62goNpx1ThQf689e",
      "type": "users",
      "attributes": {
        "username": "hashibot"
        ...
      } ...
    }
  ]
}

» Rate Limiting

You can make up to 30 requests per second to the API as an authenticated or unauthenticated request. If you reach the rate limit then your access will be throttled and an error response will be returned.

Authenticated requests are allocated to the user associated with the authentication token. This means that a user with multiple tokens will still be limited to 30 requests per second, additional tokens will not allow you to increase the requests per second permitted.

Unauthenticated requests are associated with the requesting IP address.

{
  "errors": [
    {
      "detail": "You have exceeded the API's rate limit of 30 requests per second.",
      "status": 429,
      "title": "Too many requests"
    }
  ]
}

» Client libraries and tools

HashiCorp maintains go-tfe, a Go client for TFE's API.

Additionally, the community of Terraform Enterprise users and vendors have built client libraries in other languages. These client libraries and tools are not tested nor officially maintained by HashiCorp, but are listed below in order to help users find them easily.

If you have built a client library and would like to add it to this community list, please contribute to this page.

• tf_api_gateway: Python API library and console app
• terraform-enterprise-client: Ruby API library and console app