diff --git a/home/base/tui/cloud-provider.nix b/home/base/tui/cloud/default.nix
similarity index 88%
rename from home/base/tui/cloud-provider.nix
rename to home/base/tui/cloud/default.nix
index 9e563094..fa719c10 100644
--- a/home/base/tui/cloud-provider.nix
+++ b/home/base/tui/cloud/default.nix
@@ -3,6 +3,9 @@
   pkgs,
   ...
 }: {
+  # https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/config/config-file
+  home.file.".terraformrc".source = ./terraformrc;
+
   home.packages = with pkgs; [
     # infrastructure as code
     # pulumi
diff --git a/home/base/tui/cloud/terraformrc b/home/base/tui/cloud/terraformrc
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..bf91281a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/home/base/tui/cloud/terraformrc
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+plugin_cache_dir   = "$HOME/.terraform.d/plugin-cache"
+disable_checkpoint = true