Automate ScyllaDB X Cloud Clusters with Terraform
Jun 16, 2026Cynthia Dunlop

Summary
This post introduces the ScyllaDB Cloud Terraform provider's support for ScyllaDB X Cloud. It details how to provision and manage elastic, autoscaling ScyllaDB clusters using infrastructure-as-code. The post explains the X Cloud architecture's tablet-based approach to scaling and outlines key scaling parameters configurable via Terraform, such as instance families, storage policies (min_gb, target_utilization), and vCPU policies (min). It provides a concrete Terraform resource example for an X Cloud cluster.
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