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Spaces as Terraform Backend

Posted on October 1, 2017

Has anyone figured out how to configure terraform remote state to work with spaces by using its s3 driver. I have got other things that use s3 to work with spaces but have failed with terraform so far

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chiricagheorghe

October 8, 2019

Does it support encrypt ?

rahulmah

October 14, 2020

Does it support state file locking? AWS supports locking using dynamodb table.

fulbytes

October 11, 2017

A future release of terraform should support using other s3 compatible backends like Spaces but none of the currently available versions(v0.10.7 is the current latest) will work.

I was able to configure terraform to store remote state in Spaces by building terraform from source and using the config

terraform {
  backend "s3" {
    bucket = "tfstate-bucket"
    key    = "path/terraform.tfstate"
    region = "us-east-1"
    endpoint = "https://nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com"
    access_key = "redacted"
    secret_key = "redacted"
    skip_credentials_validation = true
    skip_get_ec2_platforms = true
    skip_requesting_account_id = true
    skip_metadata_api_check = true
  }
}

Note the region key is set to a known s3 region. Attempting to use an unknown region still causes terraform to complain

https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/pull/15553

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