Using Hashicorp Consul to Store Terraform State

Hashicorp’s Terraform product is very popular in describing your infrastructure as code. One thing that you need consider when using Terraform is where you’ll store your state files and how they’ll be locked so that two team members or build servers aren’t stepping on each other. State can be stored in Terraform Enterprise (TFE) or with some cloud services such as S3. But if you want to store your state, within your data center, perhaps you should check out Hashicorp’s Consul product. ...

May 21, 2018 · 5 min · eshanks