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> The whole situation about state management is... lacking. Experience says the one thing no client ever wants in the cloud but always on prem is state.

Hm, can you elaborate? S3 state seems perfectly serviceable, and I don't immediately see why I would want to operate on-prem resources just to maintain state.

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S3 is Amazon. In some cases you want to exert control over your state without being dependent on external parties.

Currently Terraform Enterprise is the only approach to solving that and its a good one but... only if you're one of the big guns and even those sometimes think twice because the infrastructure state requires much more security than that offers.

S3 compatible on-prem storage like minio might work for you

There is nothing stopping you from backing up state in s3 and git. Just have CICD to sync it up.

State really shouldn't have anything secret in it in the first place, so 3rd party having access to it shouldn't matter.

Sec policies.

This, and also total lack of control.

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