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  Consul-Terraform-Sync Enterprise
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# Consul-Terraform-Sync Enterprise

Consul-Terraform-Sync (CTS) Enterprise is available with [Consul Enterprise](https://www.hashicorp.com/products/consul) and requires a Consul [license](/consul/docs/nia/enterprise/license) to be applied.

Enterprise features of CTS address organization complexities of collaboration, operations, scale, and governance. CTS Enterprise supports an official integration with [HCP Terraform](https://cloud.hashicorp.com/products/terraform) and [Terraform Enterprise](/terraform/enterprise), the self-hosted distribution, to extend insight into dynamic updates of your network infrastructure.

| Features | Community Edition | Enterprise |
|----------|-------------|------------|
| Consul Namespace | Default namespace only | Filter task triggers by any namespace |
| Automation Driver | Terraform Community Edition | Terraform Community Edition, HCP Terraform, or Terraform Enterprise |
| Terraform Workspaces | Local | Local workspaces with the Terraform driver or [remote workspaces](/terraform/cloud-docs/workspaces) with the HCP Terraform driver |
| Terraform Backend Options | [azurerm](/terraform/language/settings/backends/azurerm), [consul](/terraform/language/settings/backends/consul), [cos](/terraform/language/settings/backends/cos), [gcs](/terraform/language/settings/backends/gcs), [kubernetes](/terraform/language/settings/backends/kubernetes), [local](/terraform/language/settings/backends/local), [manta](/terraform/language/v1.2.x/settings/backends/manta), [pg](/terraform/language/settings/backends/pg), and [s3](/terraform/language/settings/backends/s3) with the Terraform driver | The supported backends for CTS with the Terraform driver or HCP Terraform with the HCP Terraform driver |
| Terraform Version | One Terraform version for all tasks | Optional Terraform version per task when using the HCP Terraform driver |
| Terraform Run Output | CTS logs | CTS logs or Terraform output organized by HCP Terraform remote workspaces |
| Credentials and secrets | On disk as `.tfvars` files or in shell environment | Secured variables stored in remote workspace |
| Audit | | Terraform audit logs ([HCP Terraform](/terraform/cloud-docs/api-docs/audit-trails) or [Terraform Enterprise](/terraform/enterprise/admin/infrastructure/logging)) |
| Collaboration | | Run [history](/terraform/cloud-docs/run/manage), [triggers](/terraform/cloud-docs/workspaces/settings/run-triggers), and [notifications](/terraform/cloud-docs/workspaces/settings/notifications) supported on HCP Terraform |
| Governance | | [Sentinel](/terraform/cloud-docs/policy-enforcement) to enforce governance policies as code |

The [HCP Terraform driver](/consul/docs/nia/configuration#terraform-cloud-driver) enables CTS Enterprise to integrate with HCP Terraform or Terraform Enterprise. The [HCP Terraform driver](/consul/docs/nia/network-drivers/terraform-cloud) page provides an overview of how the integration works within CTS.

## Consul Admin Partition Support
CTS subscribes to a Consul agent. Depending on the admin partition the Consul agent is a part of and the services within the admin partition, CTS will be able to subscribe to those services and support the automation workflow. As such, admin partitions are not relevant to the CTS workflow. We recommend deploying a single CTS instance that subscribes to services/KV within a single partition and using a different CTS instance (or instances) to subscribe to services/KV in another partition.