CODEWITHSUNDEEP
amazon-web-servicesamazon-s3terraform
jagatjyoti
jagatjyoti

Reputation: 717

Unable to retrieve terraform state as S3 bucket deleted

I usually prefer storing my statefiles to remote i.e. S3. This time I'm having a nightmare recovering the state as somehow the S3 bucket got deleted. Although, I have the statefile locally but it's of no use. I get this error: 

$ terraform init -reconfigure
Initializing modules...
- module.ca
- module.etcd
- module.master
- module.network
- module.node
- module.output-store
- module.rds

Initializing the backend...
Error inspecting states in the "s3" backend:
    NoSuchBucket: The specified bucket does not exist
        status code: 404, request id: 30937B3sdfsd16F978120, host id: 3lOPzk8+Me+7NHgmC+YCTJBNXH34t0rLUdm9lYU/mkuDsdAWFEp+zbwUZzOL4wgXnREY4OFTDpbv69cwk=

Prior to changing backends, Terraform inspects the source and destination
states to determine what kind of migration steps need to be taken, if any.
Terraform failed to load the states. The data in both the source and the
destination remain unmodified. Please resolve the above error and try again.

Is there a way in terraform to force the backend to local again without the reconfigure option, so that it starts considering the statefile in local ? Please advise.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2613

Answers (2)

Cosaquee
Cosaquee

Reputation: 774

Even when you are using the remote state option there is still a little bit of state that is saved locally. It is stored in the .terraform/terraform.tfstate file. You can either delete the whole directory(that will reaquire downloading all the modules and providers) or just delete the backend key from state or the whole file.

Upvotes: 1

user11389395
user11389395

Reputation: 345

Create the s3 bucket and upload your state file from your local

Upvotes: 3

Related Questions