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> This is absent from terraform-cdk

Curious to know how that is, or what an example would be? I don't see how you would have to give up state management with CDK, which I understand to be extending TF, not supplanting it.

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@polynomial - You have to use the state API on the generated terraform. This means that you need to understand the structure of the generated terraform, and are dealing with generated .json files that require introspection to determine what terraform resource ids are prior to managing their state. It is possible to do, but if you're writing code, you don't want to have to worry about the generated json.

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