State Locking and Consistency

Imagine multiple team members trying to update your cloud infrastructure at the same time using Terraform. Chaos, right?

State locking is a crucial mechanism that prevents this by ensuring only one operation can modify your Terraform state at any given moment.

Without state locking, if two people run terraform apply simultaneously:

• One might overwrite the other's changes.
• The state file could become corrupted.
• Resources might be created or destroyed unexpectedly.

This leads to an inconsistent and unreliable infrastructure.