Benefits of State
Learn about Terraform state and its benefits.
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The creation and manipulation of resources managed by Terraform need to be tracked in some
manner. Terraform achieves this through the implementation of state. When a resource is created, such as an EC2 instance in AWS, Terraform creates an entry in the state that maps the metadata about
the resource (such as instance-id
) to key/value pairs in the entry. The tracking of resource metadata
serves multiple functions.
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