Intermediateterraform
State File Corruption
Two engineers ran `terraform apply` at the same time against the same state file. Now the state is corrupted — some resources show as tainted, others are duplicated, and one critical RDS instance has disappeared from state entirely (but it's still running in AWS). Production infrastructure is at risk.
INCOMING INCIDENT
$ incident --describe state-file-corruption
Two engineers ran `terraform apply` at the same time against the same state file. Now the state is corrupted — some resources show as tainted, others are duplicated, and one critical RDS instance has disappeared from state entirely (but it's still running in AWS). Production infrastructure is at risk.
5
Decision Points
60s
Per Step
500
Max Score
300
Passing Score