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Ajay Kumar
Ajay Kumar

Reputation: 1

I'm getting following Error while doing terraform apply

[root@terraform ~]# terraform plan -out terraform.tfstate ╷ │ Error: Error acquiring the state lock │ │ Error message: 2 problems: │ │ - Unsupported state file format: The state file could not be parsed as JSON: │ syntax error at byte offset 1. │ - Unsupported state file format: The state file does not have a "version" │ attribute, which is required to identify the format version. │ │ Terraform acquires a state lock to protect the state from being written │ by multiple users at the same time. Please resolve the issue above and try │ again. For most commands, you can disable locking with the "-lock=false" │ flag, but this is not recommended.

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

Tapan Hegde
Tapan Hegde

Reputation: 1328

@Ajay Kumar hi, problem is you are trying to pass .tfstate file as input and terraform is not able to parse same. terraform apply command expect .out file or .json file as input. Whereas .tfstate file is one where desired state of your infra is maintained (this is auto created by terraform itself). In this case what you can do is

  1. Create one .tfvars file with all your configuration parameters (this will be served as input to terraform apply command)
touch input.tfvars
  1. Next pass this input.tfvars file as input to your terraform apply command using -var-file flag and -out flag to generate .out file
terraform plan -var-file=input.tfvars -out inputplan.out
  1. Next, you can use terraform apply command for above generated .out file
$ terraform apply "inputplan.out"

Refer this article for more information

https://medium.com/@hegdetapan2609/how-to-install-packages-on-multiple-similar-instances-at-same-time-using-terraform-182582af5260

Upvotes: 1

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