# Pulumi Cloud Adds Terraform Backend Support for Agentic Infrastructure

DevFeed: [Pulumi Cloud Adds Terraform Backend Support for Agentic Infrastructure](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/bring-your-terraform-estate-into-the-agentic-era-18991.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.pulumi.com/blog/bring-your-terraform-estate-into-the-agentic-era/>)

Author: Daniel Perlovsky

Published: 2026-08-04T00:00:00Z

Content type: release

Language: en

Sources: [Pulumi](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/pulumi.md>)

Topics: [Terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/terraform.md>), [Infrastructure as code](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [opentofu](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/opentofu.md>), [Cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/cloud.md>), [Deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/deployment.md>)

Tags: [agentic](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agentic.md>), [agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/agents.md>), [ai-agents](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ai-agents.md>), [cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/cloud.md>), [deployment](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/deployment.md>), [enterprise](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/enterprise.md>), [hcl](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/hcl.md>), [iac](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/iac.md>), [infrastructure-as-code](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/infrastructure-as-code.md>), [opentofu](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/opentofu.md>), [platform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/platform.md>), [product](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/product.md>), [pulumi-cloud](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/pulumi-cloud.md>), [terraform](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/terraform.md>)

## AI overview

Pulumi announces general availability of Pulumi Cloud as a backend for Terraform state. The release supports existing Terraform deployment patterns while adding Pulumi Cloud capabilities such as remote runs, visibility, manual approvals, and scalable access management.

## Source excerpt

At Pulumi, we are building the platform for agentic infrastructure. Pulumi Cloud provides the guardrails and enterprise readiness needed to safely move fast in this new era. While we are seeing extraordinary adoption -- over 40% of our users now manage infrastructure using AI agents -- we know many organizations are at different phases in their AI journey and have to balance building for the future with maintaining their existing infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions like Terraform. Today, we are launching three ways that Pulumi lets you avoid trading off building for the future against building for today. You don't have to rip out Terraform to enter the agentic era. Pulumi Cloud brings agentic infrastructure to the IaC estate you already have. What we're shipping today Last December, our CEO Joe Duffy laid out his vision to make Pulumi the platform for all of your infrastructure as code. The capabilities we are launching today make that promise a reality. Pulumi is now fully interoperable with Terraform and OpenTofu and enables organizations to build upon their existing IaC estate rather than starting from scratch as they work toward the agentic infrastructure future. Pulumi Cloud as a Terraform backend We are excited to announce the general availability of Pulumi Cloud as the backend to your Terraform state, enabling organizations to seamlessly lift and shift their existing Terraform estates. We recognize there is lots of infrastructure that works as is, and switching over to a new management paradigm may not always be possible. Pulumi Cloud support for the Terraform state backend lets organizations maintain their existing Terraform deployment patterns while also unlocking the power of Pulumi Cloud. The following common patterns for running Terraform are now supported: Plans and applies run remotely by default for new Terraform stacks, following the behavior of HCP Terraform and Terraform Enterprise. When you run a Terraform operation, it executes on a Pulumi-hoste