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You are using Terraform to manage infrastructure as code within a CI/CD pipeline. You notice that multiple copies of the entire infrastructure stack exist in your Google Cloud project, and a new copy
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Submitted by dimitri_ru· Apr 18, 2026Building and implementing CI/CD pipelines for a service
Question
You are using Terraform to manage infrastructure as code within a CI/CD pipeline. You notice that multiple copies of the entire infrastructure stack exist in your Google Cloud project, and a new copy is created each time a change to the existing infrastructure is made. You need to optimize your cloud spend by ensuring that only a single instance of your infrastructure stack exists at a time. You want to follow Google-recommended practices. What should you do?
Options
- ACreate a new pipeline to delete old infrastructure stacks when they are no longer needed.
- BConfirm that the pipeline is storing and retrieving the terraform.tfstate file from Cloud Storage with
- CVerify that the pipeline is storing and retrieving the terraform.tfstate file from a source control.
- DUpdate the pipeline to remove any existing infrastructure before you apply the latest
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Topics
#Terraform#CI/CD#State Management#Cloud Cost Optimization