Terraform State vs Reality
Someone renamed an S3 bucket and tagged an EC2 in the console. Now terraform apply fails. Reconcile state with reality without destroying the infrastructure.
Puzzle Overview
The previous engineer used the AWS Console to "just quickly fix something" while Terraform was mid-rollout. Now `terraform plan` wants to destroy and recreate resources that are actively in use, and `terraform apply` errors on conflicts.
You must bring the Terraform state and the real AWS infrastructure back into alignment — without deleting production resources — so that `terraform plan` reports "No changes."
Skills tested: `terraform state` subcommands (rm, mv, import), reading plan output, understanding the difference between code drift and state drift, tag reconciliation.
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