How to Manage Terraform State with GitLab

Jack Roper
ITNEXT
Published in
6 min readApr 17, 2024

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Managing Terraform state is crucial for ensuring the consistency and integrity of your infrastructure. GitLab can be used as a version control system to store and manage your Terraform state files. In this article we will look at what GitLab CI/CD is, what features it brings to the table, and reasons why you might want to use it before taking a look at how to use GitLab to manage your Terraform state files with some example configuration files.

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