Remote Terraform State Requires Working Traefik… DUH!
I’m working on some spring cleaning in my homelab and backed myself into a hilarious corner yesterday. I use Open Tofu for any of my Terraform needs now, and although I don’t manage a ton with terraform, I do manage all my cloudflare stuff with it. I decided I wanted to use my own minio instance as the s3 remote state backend for my workspaces so I could rely on my typical NAS data backup/retention workflow for the buckets in case anything went wrong, as opposed to a local state file that I’m not taking a lot of precautions with. Well during my Spring Cleaning I was working towards replacing ingress into my home network with Cloudflare tunnels and in the midst of that update I took down traefik, no matter a simple ’tofu apply’ should get me right back to working order… Hilarious problem with thankfully an easy fix… downloading the state file from Minio wasn’t a big deal since the container was still running without issue, and placing the state file in the folder to use as the local sta…