Terraform troubleshooting

Since Terraform applies changes incrementally, when there is a minor issue (e.g. network timeout) it’s sufficient to rerun the command. However, here we try to collect some tips that can be useful when rerunning the command doesn’t help.

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• Terraform troubleshooting
  • Corrupted Terraform state

Corrupted Terraform state

Due to network issues, Terraform state files can get out of synch with your infrastructure, and cause problems. Since Terraform apply changes increme. A possible way to fix the issue is to destroy your nodes manually, and remove all state files and cached modules:

rm -R .terraform/
rm terraform.tfstate
rm terraform.tfstate.backup