Question

Your team has been running Terraform with local state on a single engineer's laptop. To enable collaboration, you add an S3 backend configuration block to your Terraform files pointing to a new empty bucket. What is the correct next step to move the existing local state into the S3 backend?

Accepted Answer

Run 'terraform init', and when prompted, confirm that Terraform should copy the existing local state to the new S3 backend

Answer

Manually upload the terraform.tfstate file to the S3 bucket using the AWS CLI, then run 'terraform plan'

Answer

Run 'terraform apply' so the backend block is provisioned and the state is uploaded automatically

Answer

Run 'terraform state push terraform.tfstate' before any other command to seed the backend