The Terraform State File
Understand how Terraform state files work.
We'll cover the following...
A .tfstate
file was created when we ran terraform init
in the previous lesson. Here, we’ll examine that file and see what happens if we lose it. The more we use Terraform, the more important it is to understand Terraform state management, especially if we work in teams.
A look at the state file
To get a state file, we create a new directory named ltthw_state
and a hello_state.tf
file within it. Then we execute terraform init
and ...