The prerequisite for this recipe (as for all the others in this chapter) is that you have an account on Terraform Cloud (http://app.terraform.io/) and are logged in. Furthermore, you will need to create a new workspace called demo-app manually from the Terraform Cloud UI by following the documentation at https://www.terraform.io/docs/cloud/workspaces/creating.html and configuring it without choosing a VCS repository.
The goal of this recipe is to configure and use the remote backend for a simple Terraform configuration (for a better understanding that does not depend on a cloud provider). Furthermore, the execution of this Terraform configuration will be configured in Terraform Cloud for execution in local mode; that is, on a machine outside Terraform Cloud (which can be a local workstation or a CI/CD pipeline agent).
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