Infrastructure State File
Terraform state is an operational record, stored locally or through a backend. It can contain sensitive values, so control access and test recovery of resource bindings.
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Infrastructure and Configuration as Code
Your code says what should exist. The state file says what the tool believes exists. The cloud knows what actually exists. Three answers, one system.
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Infrastructure as Code: State and Drift
Infrastructure code is only half of the system; the tool also keeps a record of what it created. This guide explains state, plans, locks, drift, secrets, tests, and rollback, with Terraform examples and the output of local runs.