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Troubleshooting a Terraform State Sync Issue

Hey there, Gurus! Welcome to the lab! This lab will demonstrate how to troubleshoot a Terraform state sync issue. We will attempt to go through the different stages of deployment by trying to deploy our configuration and work through the state sync issue until we have successfully deployed our resources.

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Path Info

Level

Intermediate

Duration

30m

Published

Jan 26, 2022

Challenge

Deploy Your Backend Resources
1. In the terminal, once logged into your instance, change to the s3 directory.
2. In the s3 directory, edit the S3.tf file to either append a number or rename the bucket name in the file.
3. Run the terraform fmt command.
4. Now initialize your working directory.
5. If initialization is successful, then apply your code and deploy your resources.
Challenge

Create Your Resources
1. Now change to the terraform directory.
2. In the terraform directory, edit the main.tf file and add in subnet_id from the resource_ids.txt file.
3. Run the terraform fmt command.
4. Edit the backend.tf file and change the bucket name to the bucket name you used in the S3.tf file.
5. Now initialize your working directory.
6. If initialization is successful, then move step by step until you create your resources.
Challenge

Troubleshoot Error
1. Now edit the terraform.tfvars file and uncomment the region value.
2. Run the terraform plan -refresh-only command.
3. Fix the error and run the terraform plan -refresh-only command again.
4. Lab is complete when your resources are deployed and the sync error is gone.

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A Cloud Guru

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