HashiCorp no longer offers a free plan for Terraform Cloud

Got an email today:

Hi there,

We’re reaching out to let you know that your organization is currently on the legacy HCP Terraform Free plan. This plan will reach end-of-life (EOL) on March 31, 2026. After this date, the plan will no longer be supported.

To keep using your organization without interruption, please sign up for a current HCP Terraform plan and migrate your existing organization before March 31, 2026

Not surprising because Hashicorp doesn't exist anymore. Obviously the name exists. But that's about it. It's just a name. The spirit is gone. The spirit is now IBM. So you should calibrate your expectations accordingly.

A good alternative is to just run your Terraform yourself in Github Actions or Gitlab CD, and host your state in S3. We are using open-source Terramate to orchestrate Terraform, and it makes the transition and operations super easy.