Where are .tfstate and .tfstate.backup stored?

[ghost]

Hi,

I am testing on atlantis but unfortunately I messed up the whole region. How do I call terraform destroy in atlantis? Or, if I have to call that from the host machine, where are .tfstate and .tfstate.backup stored?

Currently I have to open another region aws console, check which resources should not exist and delete them all.

[lkysow]

@minghsieh-prenetics are you using local state? If you're using remote state then your state will be wherever it's configured to be. Atlantis should only be used with remote state because otherwise your state needs to be checked into the repo which Atlantis can't do for you.

See https://www.terraform.io/docs/state/remote.html

To answer your question, Atlantis checks out your repo to ~/.atlantis/repos/{owner}/{repo}/{pullRequestNum}/{workspace}. If you're using local state then the .tfstate files should be in there.

[ghost]

Well, I just try again with standard ./atlantis bootstrap cmd. It turns out the terraform state stored in /tmp/atlantis/data/repos/<github username>/atlantis-example/<pull req number>/<env>/<env>/terraform.tfstate.d/<env>/terraform.tfstate. I accidentally got this due to click the conflict PR (e.g. Plan Failed: This project is currently locked by #1. The locking plan must be applied or discarded before future plans can execute). Thanks anyway.

[lkysow]

ahh okay, let me know if you run into anything else!