Local state vs. remote state

As stated at the start of this chapter, the default storage for a Terraform state is in a local file called terraform.tfstate. This is fine when working on a local project or for small proof of concepts, but it does not practically scale beyond that. If you want to work on a Terraform project on more than one machine or with more than one person, then the local state won’t cut it anymore.

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