Creating Azure Dev Ops Pipeline to integrate with Terraform Cloud (CLI Version)

Question

GitHub has a predefined action workflow to allow me to integrate a repository with Terraform Cloud (using the CLI integration, not the VCS integration). This is a useful feature that allows me to use Terraform Cloud as a remote backend, but still use the more versatile CLI driven syntax in my pipeline. The GitHub tool I am referring to can be seen here:

https://github.com/hashicorp/setup-terraform

Is there an equivalent functionality for Azure Dev Ops? Looking through the documentation, I have found examples of individuals linking Azure Dev Ops to terraform using the VCS setting, but that is not what I am looking for. Every other app/integration seems to assume a cloud storage account is being used for the backend - which is not the case. Struggling to understand 'if' I am able to integrate Azure Dev Ops with Terraform Cloud (remote backend) using the same CLI commands that GitHub has support for. Any thoughts?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I found one 'possible' solution using a 3rd party integration available in the Azure Dev Ops store. A description of this implementation can be found here:
https://blog.devgenius.io/how-to-configure-azure-devops-with-terraform-enterprise-cac1bbd9810b

The app that is being used to achieve the connection is found here:
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=charleszipp.azure-pipelines-tasks-terraform

This all looks like something of a hack, though - and I cannot find any official documentation supporting the implementation. I would still love to hear if there is a more 'above board' way of doing this.