Migrating Terraform State to Terraform Cloud

Lab Scenario

You are an admin who supports one of the largest online comic book retailers in the world. You are one of a handful of Terraform admins who have been assigned to use Terraform to manage the company's cloud deployments. You have started working on some pretty important configurations for the company's infrastructure and would like to start utilizing Terraform Cloud to store your state remotely for backup and auditing purposes. To accomplish this, you will configure your local Terraform configuration to use Terraform Cloud to store your state remotely.

Lab Setup

To access the Terraform configuration files used in this lab, go to the ZIP file in the lab's GitHub repository.

To access Terraform, go to the Terraform Cloud login page.

Note: If you perform this lab more than once, be sure to delete the ACG-Terraform-Labs organization you created. If not, you will get an error message stating it already exists while setting up your Terraform Cloud workspace. When creating a workspace named labs-migrate-state, use the CLI-driven workflowoption.

Backend Configuration Code

To add the remote backend to the configuration file, use the following, replacing <ORG_NAME> with ACG-Terraform-Labs and Example-Workspace with lab-migrate-state:

```
terraform {
   backend "remote" {
     organization = "<ORG_NAME>"
     workspaces {
       name = "Example-Workspace"
     }
   }

   required_providers {
      aws = {
        source  = "hashicorp/aws"
        version = "~> 3.27"
      }
   }
}
```