Editing Terraform State Files (DON'T!) | Stream Highlight - September 8th
When it comes to managing a Terraform state file the worst thing you can do is edit it directly. This will lead to broken infrastructure and downtime. Instead use Terraform's built in native commands for importing, moving, removing and renaming objects inside of the state.
0:00 Intro
0:03 Scenario
3:49 Documentation Overview
6:26 Inspecting State
9:03 Tainting - Resource Recreation
11:54 Moving Resources
14:19 Disaster Recovery
15:58 Importing Resources
19:04 Scenario Wrap-up
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