In this article, we'll examine the Terraform Workspace concept. We'll completely follow the Workspace section on its official page.

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In the Terraform CLI, a "workspace" is a logical structure that lets us keep multiple independent state files within the same configuration directory.

In its simplest form, the recommended usage is when the same resources need to be managed with different variables. To put it a bit more concretely, let's imagine we need to manage test, pre-prod (staging) and prod environments on a cloud provider, for example. In this case, from environment to environment, the individual number of our resources, network settings, cpu, memory, etc. will change, but most of our resources will stay the same.…