The Best Terraform Statefile Approach Recommendation

December 14, 2021

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terraform terraspace

Explain why think the best Terraform state file approach is a stack-env scoped approach. We'll go over the evolution process, IE: pain and suffering, that folks usually go through before arriving at the same conclusions.

This approach is actually the same recommendation by Hashicorp themselves: One Workspace Per Environment Per Terraform Configuration. It's just a little bit buried in the Terraform Cloud docs.

Terraspace Docs: Terraform Statefile Approaches and Thoughts
Terraform Docs: One Workspace Per Environment Per Terraform Configuration

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