How-to add your Terraform Enterprise license path on Flexible Deployment Options Docker installation

Introduction

Installing the Terraform Enterprise (TFE) Flexible Deploy Options (FDO) on Docker requires a license.

This article aims to show how you can provide your TFE license path to Docker using a TFE_LICENSE_PATH environment variable in your application settings.

Expected Outcome

Install TFE FDO using Docker successfully.

Prerequisites (if applicable)

• TFE FDO License

Use Case

Your company requires you to provide your TFE application license from a file.

Procedure

• Create a folder for your TFE FDO installation files. I will use /root/tfe-fdo 
• Go to the folder /root/tfe-fdo
• Create a file named fdo-license.txt and copy the license code to it and save it 

• Create a compose.yaml file and populate it with your desired deployment configuration

• Define the  TFE_LICENSE_PATH environment variable as below in your yaml file

environment:  
  TFE_LICENSE_PATH: /var/tmp/tfe-fdo/fdo-license.txt

• Add the following bind to your volumes 

 volumes:
  - type: bind  
    source: /root/tfe-fdo  
    target: /var/tmp/tfe-fdo

NOTE: You can use any other paths that you require in your installation

Additional Information

• TFE FDO Configuration Reference

• Docker Volumes
• Docker Binds