Local execution

One of the crucial aspects of Infrastructure as Code is that you always have local execution as a break-glass measure if your control plane is broken. We make sure that principle is preserved in all cases. There are two cases to consider:

• You're using a self-managed state store, like S3. In this case, as long as you can replicate cloud creds locally, you can use your IaC outside of Plural at any time.
• You're using Plural to manage your state.

Run locally with Plural Managed State

Plural's Terraform state backend works by using the http remote backend and writing an _override.tf file to the local folder to wire in that backend. You can invoke that logic from the CLI with:

plural cd stacks gen-backend

This will write the same file locally, and a terraform init will initialize Terraform against that HTTP backend.