Terraform State Backends: Choosing and Configuring Remote State
Local Terraform state works for learning. Production requires remote state—for team collaboration, state locking, and not losing your infrastructure when your laptop dies. Here’s how to set it up properly. Why Remote State? Local state (terraform.tfstate) has problems: No collaboration - Team members overwrite each other’s changes No locking - Concurrent applies corrupt state No backup - Laptop dies, state is gone, orphaned resources everywhere Secrets in plain text - State contains sensitive data Remote backends solve all of these. ...