I tried to upgrade hashicorp/aws provider to the latest version, and it asks me to terraform init -upgrade. Will it change anything in the remote (s3) state? I asked this because I want to know what impact it will have to other team members who do not get my change yet.

What does `terraform init -upgrade` do?

alexi.zuo December 1, 2021, 11:47pm 3

Thanks aram. by “remote” do you mean remote state(which is in a s3 file) or remote resources on AWS? So the remote s3 state file does get updated to show the provider version?

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What does `terraform init -upgrade` do?

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