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by usrn 1488 days ago
That's not state information though, that's metadata.
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pharmakom 1488 days ago
If some state information is stored using metadata then we need that metadata to know the total state. The contents of TF state is more than what can be read from the provider APIs often.
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mountainriver 1488 days ago
Yeah but the extra stuff they add is a trade off and lots of people would rather not have two sources of truth to have it
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rad_gruchalski 1488 days ago
Most of the people I know who use Terraform use Terraform as the source of truth.
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usrn 1488 days ago
You can wish things are a certain way but that doesn't change reality no matter how nice that would be.
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rad_gruchalski 1488 days ago
Seen this many times. People using a tool in an unintended manner and then bashing the tool.
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mountainriver 1485 days ago
Huh so you access your infra through terraform?
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