Chicken and Egg: The terraform remote state S3 bucket cannot be idempotent if created by Terraform

queglay · April 10, 2021, 1:27am

In case anyone comes across this again, adopting terragrunt into my workflow solved this problem, by its ability to auto configure remote state.

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