Ramp Contracts in Terraform

Ramp Contracts in Terraform are the backbone for integrating your cloud infrastructure spend with your Infrastructure as Code workflows. Ramp allows you to automate cost controls. Terraform lets you manage infrastructure declaratively. When you combine them, you can enforce budget limits, contract terms, and resource policies across every environment without manual intervention.

A Ramp contract defines constraints — spend limits, approved services, compliance rules — for a specific workspace or organization. In Terraform, these contracts become code: versioned, reviewed, and deployed alongside your infrastructure modules. No emails. No spreadsheets. Just reproducible policy enforcement baked into your CI/CD.

To integrate Ramp contracts in Terraform, you start by using the Ramp provider. This provider gives you resources and data sources to manage contract definitions directly from code. Core steps:

1. Authenticate Terraform with Ramp via API credentials.
2. Define a ramp_contract resource with parameters like name, budget, start date, end date, and service constraints.
3. Use contract IDs to bind infrastructure resources to those constraints.
4. Run terraform plan and terraform apply to deploy the contract enforcement.

This setup guarantees that if an engineer tries to spin up a resource outside the contract’s limits, Terraform will fail the plan or reject the apply. Ramp’s backend enforces rules in real time. You can scope contracts to different teams or projects, and manage all of it in the same Git repository that holds your infrastructure code.

Best practices for Ramp contracts in Terraform:

• Keep all contract definitions in a dedicated module to simplify updates.
• Version-lock the Ramp provider to prevent drift in resource behavior.
• Use data sources to validate contract details against Ramp before deployment.
• Regularly rotate API keys to maintain security posture.

When you manage Ramp contracts through Terraform, your cost and compliance controls are applied at the same level as your infrastructure provisioning. No drift. No silent overspend. No outdated policy docs. Just fast, predictable enforcement by design.

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