Error: Backend initialization required, please run "terraform init"

[Prateek Tripathi]

Hi all,

I keep getting following error when running terraform apply:

│ Error: Backend initialization required, please run "terraform init"

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│

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│ Reason: Initial configuration of the requested backend "s3"

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│

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│ The "backend" is the interface that Terraform uses to store state,

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│ perform operations, etc. If this message is showing up, it means that the

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│ Terraform configuration you're using is using a custom configuration for

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│ the Terraform backend.

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│

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│ Changes to backend configurations require reinitialization. This allows

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│ Terraform to set up the new configuration, copy existing state, etc. Please

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│ run

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│ "terraform init" with either the "-reconfigure" or "-migrate-state" flags

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│ to

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│ use the current configuration.

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│

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│ If the change reason above is incorrect, please verify your configuration

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│ hasn't changed and try again. At this point, no changes to your existing

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│ configuration or state have been made.

The terraform init and terraform plan executes successfully with the pipeline. Also, there is absolutely no error when running terraform apply locally, issue only occurs when I perform ci/cd with bitbucket pipeline and it reaches to the terraform apply part.

It's a new s3 bucket that I am using as backend. there is no existing object in it.

I've already tried "-reconfigure" and "-migrate-state" but it still is a no go.

Looking for an urgent suggestions to fix this.

[Brant Schroeder]

@Prateek Tripathi Welcome to the Atlassian community

I think this should be able to help you out https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68985429/backend-initialization-required-please-run-terraform-init