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Should our Terraform runs move from Jenkins agents to a managed platform like HCP Terraform?

Managed platforms sell governance, not execution: locked state with RBAC, plans on every pull request, and audit logs. Price them per resource under management against the engineering hours self-hosting quietly burns.

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Managed platforms sell governance, not execution: locked state with RBAC, plans on every pull request, and audit logs. Price them per resource under management against the engineering hours self-hosting quietly burns.

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