“Self-hosted Terraform” usually isn’t about preference — it’s about constraints: compliance, data residency, private networking, or simply needing execution to happen inside your own environment.
The key decision isn’t whether Terraform can run there (it can), but how you want to operate it day-to-day: collaboration workflow, access control, state locking, secrets handling, auditability, and how you scale runs safely without turning CI into a fragile snowflake.
In the full guide, we cover:
- What “self-hosted Terraform” means in practice (and what it doesn’t)
- Four common models teams use, from local execution to fully managed workflows with self-hosted runners
- The tradeoffs to evaluate: control, security posture, scaling, and operational overhead
- What tends to break first (locking, concurrency, secrets, drift) and how to plan around it
➡️ Read the full article on our blog:
https://spacelift.io/blog/terraform-self-hosted
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