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Nick Fagerlund 596e529602 website: Adopt a ton of pages into the "language" layout
As of this commit, that layout doesn't exist yet, but I'm isolating the one-line
changes to their own commit to try and keep your eyes from glazing over.
2020-10-26 18:19:26 -07:00
Martin Atkins 08ba58c8c8 website: Documentation about the one-to-one object binding assumption
Terraform's design assumes that each remote object in Terraform's care is
bound to one resource instance and one alone. If the same object is bound
to multiple instances then confusing behavior will often result, such as
two resource configurations competing to update a single object, or
objects being "left behind" when all existing Terraform deployments are
destroyed.

This assumption was previously only implied, though. This change is an
attempt to be more explicit about it, although these are additions to some
older documentation sections that have not been revised for some time and
so this is just a best effort to make this information discoverable
without getting drawn into a full-on reorganization of these sections.

While revising this there were some particular oddities that I decided to
revise while I was there, but I'll leave a fuller revision of this older
content for a later commit when we have more time to review it in greater
detail.
2020-07-31 15:22:50 -07:00
Martin Atkins d4ac68423c website: Tweak the language we use to describe remote state
After some discussion with "iamakulov" on Twitter it seems that the use
of the word "conflicts" and "merge conflicts" here was sounding like us
implicitly condoning the use of version control as a mechanism for
distributing local state files, which hasn't been recommended for quite
some time since remote state now provides a much more robust solution.

While here, I also tweaked some other language on this page for style and
for use of terminology we more commonly use in our more recent
documentation.
2018-06-26 11:43:36 -07:00
Martin Atkins 7ed70bb00e website: new filesystem layout for core/provider split
This repo now contains only the core docs, with other content moving elsewhere.
2017-06-13 11:25:32 -07:00