# Terraform MCP Server

Generate more accurate Terraform and automate workflows for HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise

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## Status

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## Connect

Published as `docker.io/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server:1.0.0` on oci. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**62 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 12.

### Most discussed

### Feature request: Add team, project, and team access management tools

#### Use-cases

When automating Terraform Cloud/Enterprise setup for new teams or projects, three operations are always required but currently missing from the MCP server:

1. **Create a project**
2. **Create a team**
3. **Grant team access to a project or workspace**

Today these must be done via raw API calls (`curl`) or the TFC UI, which breaks the automation flow when using an MCP client. An agent can create workspaces, manage variables, and trigger runs, but cannot set up the organizational

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/368) · 2026-05-21 · open · external user · 3 comments

### Provider search for 'keycloak' returns community provider instead of official

## Description
When searching for 'keycloak' in the Terraform Provider Registry via terraform-mcp-server, the top result is a community provider from the user `mrparkers` rather than the official Keycloak provider. This leads to confusion for users who expect official providers to be prioritized.

## Testing plan
1. Search for 'keycloak' using the provider search functionality in terraform-mcp-server.
2. Observe the returned providers and note that the community provider (mrparkers/keycloak) app

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/178) · 2025-09-23 · open · external user · 3 comments

### [FEAT] Terraform documentation tool

**Suggestion:**
Can you please make additional toolset that would be able to pull latest terraform configuration documentation from https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform or https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language?
Something like _#getTerraformDocs_.

**Use case:**
For example it is very hard to use Copilot and included with it LLM's to write terraform tests. Without actual tests schema they don't know how to write native terraform tests and create some non usable hybrids with terrafo

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/111) · 2025-07-09 · closed · external user · 6 comments

### Unable to use MCP behind Zscaler Internet Access proxy

We leverage Zscaler Internet Access with TLS inspection as part of our base desktop images. Because of this, all requests to external sites receive an intermediate certificate anchored in a Zscaler root and is causing the MCP server calls out to the registry to fail:

`tls: failed to verify certificate: x509: certificate signed by unknown authority`

We either need the image to include known trusted intermediates (like the different Zscaler intermediates) or a way to pass in our own .pem file to

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/89) · 2025-06-12 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### [FEAT] Add support for fetching the latest provider version

First, I would like to thank you for contributing this MCP server.

A request I often ask to my coding agent is "include the latest version of this provider". It would be helpful if the MCP server could expose the provider "metadata".

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/79) · 2025-06-04 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Most recent

### Add a `whoami` tool

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#### Use-cases

I have more than one token that I use for accessing differ

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/463) · 2026-08-11 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### `get_apply_logs` hangs then times out if the apply is in a pending state.

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#### terraform-mcp-server version
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[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/462) · 2026-08-11 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### Module Deprecation/Revocation Status

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#### Use-cases
As a module publisher in our private registry, we need to p

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/455) · 2026-08-07 · open · external user · 0 comments

### retrieve private registry submodule information

currently the `get_private_module_details` tool only returns top-level module info and does not expose any additional information at the individual submodule level

expected outcome: expose private registry submodule information in the same manner as top-level modules.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/438) · 2026-07-31 · open · external user · 0 comments

### create_no_code_workspace: elicitation marks every module variable required and rejects empty values (defaults/optionality not honoured

**Version**

hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server:latest
(code analysis against main @ ab3929d44fe2a8c37d3cf8d267335f1a8e4f7f01)

**Description**
create_no_code_workspace collects module variables via an elicitation/create request. The way that request is built and validated makes it impossible to create most real no-code modules — any module with an optional or defaulted input variable — even from a client that fully supports elicitation.

Two code paths combine to cause this:

Every input variable i

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/426) · 2026-07-28 · closed · external user · 0 comments

### Not all logs are outputted as JSON when using LOG_FORMAT=json in http-streamable mode

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#### terraform-mcp-server version
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[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/400) · 2026-07-14 · closed · outside contributor · 1 comment

### stdio mode: server does not exit on stdin EOF, leaking docker run --rm containers

## Problem

When the server runs in stdio mode inside Docker — the documented pattern, and the one shipped in the `hashicorp/agent-skills` Claude Code plugins:

```bash
docker run -i --rm -e TFE_TOKEN -e TFE_ADDRESS hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server
```

the container **does not exit when the MCP client goes away**. When a Claude Code session ends, the client side of the stdin pipe closes, but the server keeps running, so `--rm` never triggers and the container is orphaned. Every new session starts

[Read the thread](https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-mcp-server/issues/397) · 2026-07-13 · open · external user · 1 comment

[See all 23 reports Pod holds for Terraform](/mcp/terraform/issues) — of 62 qualified upstream.

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