When Terraform Gets Messy: Refactoring, Imports, and State Surgery
S01E06 of Terraform for Application Engineers
Sep 19, 20266 min read13

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Six months into a project, our main.tf was 800 lines long. Every resource — Cloud Run services, Pub/Sub topics, Cloud SQL, Redis, IAM bindings, secrets — lived in one file. Nobody wanted to touch it.

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