Terraform State Management: Remote Backends, Locking, and Workspaces
Introduction Terraform state is the source of truth for your infrastructure. Proper state management is critical for team collaboration, preventing conflicts, and maintaining infrastructure integrity. This guide covers remote backends, locking mechanisms, and workspace strategies.
Understanding Terraform State What is State? State is Terraform’s way of tracking which real-world resources correspond to your configuration. It’s stored in terraform.tfstate file.
State file contains:
Resource mappings Metadata Resource dependencies Attribute values Why State Matters Without proper state management:
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