Terraform State Operations

Overview

State operations modify Terraform's understanding of infrastructure without changing actual resources. These are dangerous because mistakes can orphan resources or cause Terraform to recreate existing infrastructure.

Announce at start: "I'm using the terraform-state-operations skill for safe state surgery."

CRITICAL: Pre-Operation Safety

1. Create State Backup

ALWAYS create a backup before ANY state operation:

# Create timestamped backup
BACKUP_NAME="state-backup-$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).tfstate"