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layout: "docs"
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page_title: "Authentication - Terraform CLI"
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description: "Documentation about the `login` and `logout` commands that help automate getting an API token for your Terraform Cloud account."
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---
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# CLI Authentication
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> **Hands-on:** Try the [Authenticate the CLI with Terraform Cloud](https://learn.hashicorp.com/tutorials/terraform/cloud-login?in=terraform/cloud&utm_source=WEBSITE&utm_medium=WEB_IO&utm_offer=ARTICLE_PAGE&utm_content=DOCS) tutorial on HashiCorp Learn.
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[Terraform Cloud](/docs/cloud/index.html) and
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[Terraform Enterprise](/docs/enterprise/index.html) are platforms that perform
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Terraform runs to provision infrastructure, offering a collaboration-focused
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environment that makes it easier for teams to use Terraform together. (For
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expediency, the content below refers to both products as "Terraform Cloud.")
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Terraform CLI integrates with Terraform Cloud in several ways — it can be a
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front-end for [CLI-driven runs](/docs/cloud/run/cli.html) in Terraform Cloud,
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and can also use Terraform Cloud as a state backend and a private module
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registry. All of these integrations require you to authenticate Terraform CLI
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with your Terraform Cloud account.
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The best way to handle CLI authentication is with the `login` and `logout`
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commands, which help automate the process of getting an API token for your
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Terraform Cloud user account.
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For details, see:
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- [The `terraform login` command](/docs/cli/commands/login.html)
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- [The `terraform logout` command](/docs/cli/commands/logout.html)
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