Use Terraform remote state with locking safely in a team

domain: terraform · 4 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Backend s3 with use_lockfile (or dynamodb_table on older versions) for state locking
  2. Separate state per environment (key=env/component.tfstate) — never one giant state
  3. terraform plan -out=plan.tfplan in CI, apply ONLY that artifact
  4. Restrict state bucket access — state contains secrets in plaintext

Known gotchas

Related routes

Configure Terraform S3 backend with native state locking (use_lockfile) without DynamoDB
developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/language/backend/s3 · 6 steps · unrated

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