Terraform Day-3

learnt about terraform statefile -> terraform.tfstate

what it does, why it is important

it is like heart of the terraform it tells terraform the state of the system

Security flaw with pushing terraform.tfstate file onto vcs hosting platforms like github

Remote backend is the solution

s3 is one of the remote backend

learnt why lock file is used

used to not allow concurent access to terraform backend

amazon dynamodb table can be used for maintaining state of lock file

project

did 2 files terraform project to launch ec2-instance

used s3 as remote backend