How-to add your Terraform Enterprise license path on Flexible Deployment Options Docker installation – HashiCorp Help Center

Introduction

Installing Terraform Enterprise (TFE) with Flexible Deployment Options (FDO) on Docker requires a license file. This article explains how to provide the TFE license path to Docker using the TFE_LICENSE_PATH environment variable in your application settings.

Expected Outcome

You will successfully install TFE FDO using Docker with a license provided from a file path.

Prerequisites

A valid Terraform Enterprise Flexible Deployment Options license key.

Use Case

Your organization requires you to provide the TFE application license from a file during a Docker-based installation.

Procedure

Create a directory for your Terraform Enterprise installation files. This guide uses /root/tfe-fdo as an example.
```
$ mkdir -p /root/tfe-fdo && cd /root/tfe-fdo
```
Create the license file and add your license key. Replace <YOUR_LICENSE_KEY> with your actual license.
```
$ echo "<YOUR_LICENSE_KEY>" > fdo-license.txt
```
In your compose.yaml file, define the TFE_LICENSE_PATH environment variable and mount the directory containing the license file as a volume.

The source path for the volume should match the directory you created on the host machine, and the target path is the location inside the container where Terraform Enterprise will look for the license file.
```
services:
  tfe:
    ## ... other service configurations
    environment:
      TFE_LICENSE_PATH: /var/tmp/tfe-fdo/fdo-license.txt
    ## ... other environment variables
    volumes:
      - type: bind
        source: /root/tfe-fdo ## Host path where the license file is stored
        target: /var/tmp/tfe-fdo ## Container path where TFE will look for the license
    ## ... other volume configurations
```
Note: You can use different host and target paths to fit your environment's requirements. Ensure the source path exists on your host and the TFE_LICENSE_PATH variable correctly points to the license file within the target path.

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