Manipulating State

The command terraform state can be used to manipulate your terraform state file.

Command	Description
terraform state list	List the state
terraform state mv	move / rename an item in the state
terraform state pull	Pull current state and output to stdout
terraform state push	Overwrite state by pushing local file to statefile
terraform state replace-provider	Replace a provider in the state file
terraform state rm	Remove item from state
terraform state show	Show item in state

Few scenarios where we might have to modify the state:

• When upgrading between versions

• When we want to rename a resource in terraform without recraeting it

• When we changed a key in a for-each but don't want to recreate the resource

• Change position of a resource in a list

• When we want to stop managing a resource, but we don't want to destroy the resource

• When we want to show the attributes un the state of a resource