DevOps, GCP, etc.
Terraform must store the state of your managed infrastructure and configuration. This state is used by Terraform to map real-world resources to your configuration, keep track of metadata, and improve performance for large infrastructures.
This state is stored by default in a local file named terraform.tfstate, but it can also be stored remotely, which works better in a team environment.
As you manage your infrastructure with Terraform, increasingly complex configurations will be created. There is no intrinsic limit to the complexity of a single Terraform configuration file or directory, so it is possible to continue writing and updating your configuration files in a single directory.
Terraform is the infrastructure as code offering from HashiCorp. It is a tool for building, changing, and managing infrastructure in a safe, repeatable way. Terraform is used to manage environments with a configuration language called the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) ..