Explain the benefits of state

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Terraform must store 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 to improve performance for large infrastructures. [1]

Is stored by default in a local file named terraform.tfstate.


Purpose

  • Mapping the Real World
  • Metadata
  • Performance
  • Syncing

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See also

  • https://www.terraform.io/language/state
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