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Hey,

Some of our customer are using the swift backend for terraform state
storage. By the look of things they're going to drop all of the
backends that are unmaintained.

We've had a look at the S3 remote, sadly it isn't suitable as it uses
DynamoDB for locking. We'd rather not tell customers they have to use
services from another cloud provider. :)

The locking in the Swift backend isn't that great either, as it appears
to store the lock state in Swift which with eventual consistency...

It seems that our current recommendation to customers will end up being
to use the PostgreSQL backend which they can use by deploying a Trove
instance.

Cheers,
Andrew

On Fri, 2022-08-19 at 10:49 -0500, Alvaro Soto wrote:
> S3 will do it.
> 
> On Fri, Aug 19, 2022 at 9:21 AM Clay Gerrard <clay.gerrard at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Do you use the swift backend for terraform state storage?  It looks
> > like they're dumping a bunch of other backends too - maybe they did
> > a user-survey and they're just keeping the top-5 cloud providers or
> > something.
> > 
> > On Thu, Aug 18, 2022 at 4:24 PM Andrew Ruthven <andrew at etc.gen.nz>
> > wrote:
> > > Hey,
> > > 
> > > It has come to our attention that Terraform has recently added
> > > deprecation messages to a number of backends, including Swift[0],
> > > warning that these backends will be removed in a future version
> > > of Terraform. Unfortunately we don't have the bandwidth within
> > > Catalyst Cloud to pick this up, but I was hopeful that there'd be
> > > others on this list who share our concern.
> > > 
> > > It looks as though Terraform has had the Swift backend marked as
> > > unmaintained since at least March 2020[1].
> > > 
> > > If there is another backend, or another method of managing Swift
> > > that isn't the S3 API then I'd be keen to hear about it.
> > > 
> > > Kind regards,
> > > Andrew
> > > 
> > > [0] 
> > > https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/7941b2fbdc33a42a68b9b32af51e09f7df35fe66
> > > [1] 
> > > https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/commit/c434db158e631b0bfddb92e1dd342b924880f29a
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -- 
> > > Andrew Ruthven, Wellington, New Zealand
> > > andrew at etc.gen.nz |
> > > Catalyst Cloud: | This space intentionally left blank
> > > https://catalystcloud.nz |
> > > 
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Clay Gerrard
> > 210 788 9431
> 
> 

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