A Killed CI Job Left a Terraform State Lock Behind, and It Blocked Every Pipeline for 40 Minutes

A Killed CI Job Left a Terraform State Lock Behind, and It Blocked Every Pipeline for 40 Minutes

By KP  |  TZoneLabs  |  DevOps & Cloud Engineering Every terraform plan across three separate pipelines started failing with the same message: Error acquiring the state lock. Nothing was running. The lock had been held by a CI job that got killed by a pipeline timeout forty minutes earlier, and it never got the chance … Read more