Managing Terraform State GSP752
Overview
Terraform must store the state about your managed infrastructure and configuration. This state is used by Terraform to map real-world resources to your configuration, keep track of metadata, and improve performance for large infrastructures.
This state is stored by default in a local file named terraform.tfstate, but it can also be stored remotely, which works better in a team environment.
Terraform uses this local state to create plans and make changes to your infrastructure. Before any operation, Terraform does a refresh to update the state with the real infrastructure.
The primary purpose of Terraform state is to store bindings between objects in a remote system and resource instances declared in your configuration. When Terraform creates a remote object in response to a change of configuration, it will record the identity of that remote object against a particular resource instance and then potentially update or delete that object in response to future configuration changes.
Objectives
In this lab, you will learn how to perform the following tasks:
Create a local backend.
Create a Cloud Storage backend.
Refresh your Terraform state.
Import a Terraform configuration.
Manage the imported configuration with Terraform.
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