terraform-state-surgery

Guides careful, user-confirmed edits to Terraform state, covering importing existing cloud resources, renaming resources and moving them between modules, releasing resources without deleting them, migrating state to a new backend, and clearing stale state locks. The small configuration edits these operations require, such as the resource block an import needs or a block rename during an address refactor, are part of the work. Use when the user wants to bring unmanaged infrastructure under Terraform control, refactor resource addresses in state, hand a resource to another team, change where state is stored, or recover from a lock left by a crashed run. Not for designing new modules, provisioning brand-new infrastructure, or destroying live resources.

Version

v1.0.0

Size

16 KB

Updated

2026-10-11

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