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Getting Started with Terraform

You're reading from   Getting Started with Terraform Infrastructure automation made easy

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465108
Length 206 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Kirill Shirinkin Kirill Shirinkin
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Table of Contents (9) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Infrastructure Automation FREE CHAPTER 2. Deploying First Server 3. Resource Dependencies and Modules 4. Storing and Supplying Configuration 5. Connecting with Other Tools 6. Scaling and Updating Infrastructure 7. Collaborative Infrastructure 8. Future of Terraform

Locking state files with Terragrunt


Let's say you have your application template and a team of five people working on it. One Monday morning you decide to change a minor thing, such as the security group, and at the same time your colleague, sitting in a room next to you, decides to change a disk size for instances. Being confident that you are the only ones running the terraform apply command at this moment, you both do terraform apply, push changed state file to the git repository (or to remote storage like S3), and end up in a total disaster.

If your state file is stored in git, then you will meet the merge conflict: not too bad, you can try to resolve it by hand, and you still can see who changed what. If you use a remote backend for the state file, then things are going south. Which state file is now inside the remote storage? And where do changes of another Terraform run go?

It is dangerous to work on the same state file in a team because there is no locking out of the box. You could...

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