What is Terraform 'state'?

The concept of State is critical to the core functionality of Terraform and provides several critical benefits. These include mapping to the real world, metadata to help understand dependencies and syncing/locking across teams to prevent simultaneous changes.

While this video provides a very high level overview of State to get you started, I suggest digging further into the docs to see more uses and benefits.

Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
0:21 What is State?
1:03 Format of State Files
1:20 Looking at an actual State File
1:55 Metadata
2:17 Performance Benefits
3:07 Syncing
3:35 Remote State & Backend
4:08 Summary

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Understanding Terraform State | Terraform Tutorial
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