The same project needs to behave consistently on developer machines, in CI and after deployment. Which versions, dependencies and configuration should be recorded?

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Pin Terraform and provider versions, commit the dependency lockfile and keep environment inputs explicit. Run initialization and validation before planning. Use a shared remote backend for team changes and avoid treating a developer’s local state file as the production source of truth.

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