state command not working

[abhiramani-git]

this is the task i am running. i keep getting this error:State management commands require a state file. Run this commandto point the command to a specific state location.

steps:

• task: ms-devlabs.custom-terraform-tasks.custom-terraform-release-task.TerraformTaskV4@4 displayName: 'Terraform : azurerm' inputs: command: custom customCommand: state commandOptions: 'list -state=https://teststorageaccount.blob.core.windows.net/ahs-tfstate/azure-terraform/VulnerabilitiesReporting/02_others/devtest/devtest.tfvars' environmentServiceNameAzureRM: 'MyConnection' enabled: false

[mericstam]

Hi, first of all what are you trying to accomplish? And is your state file called devtest.tfvars? please provide the steps of your pipeline.

br Manuel

[abhiramani-git]

@mericstam i am trying to list state file content and then i need to delete some resources from state file if list works successfully

yes its called devtest.tfvars. i have just kept that extension instead of .tfstate.

[mericstam]

Do you use SAS token to access blob store? or how do you authenticate?

/Manuel

[abhiramani-git]

Hi i am running pipeline using service principal and it has contributor access to storage account. and other steps like terraform init/plan/apply all work fine. just state commands like list/rm not working

[mericstam]

as far as I understand the option -state=path is ignored when using remote state.

https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/state/list So perhaps as a test you can change to default name?

br Manuel

[abhiramani-git]

Just terraform state list fails with not much info. my state is already successfully initialized in "terraform init state"

[abhiramani-git]

Any update?

[mericstam]

Can you run the terraform state command locally?

[abhiramani-git]

Yes I can