alt Hacker News> The most confusing part of terraform for me is that terraform's view of the infrastructure is a singleton config file that is often stored in that very infrastructure.
These folks also have an article about that: https://newsletter.masterpoint.io/p/how-to-bootstrap-your-st...
That article is way overkill. One should just manually create the backend storage (S3 bucket or whatever you use). No reason to faff about with the steps in the article.