If you manage Azure infrastructure with Terraform, you might have encountered a frustrating error when running terraform plan or terraform apply :
First, find the current (empty) lock ID. The error message may show it, or you can inspect metadata via Azure CLI: blob metadata terraformlockid was empty
terraform plan Terraform should now successfully acquire a fresh lock (you’ll see a new valid terraformlockid with a UUID value). Only if you are absolutely sure no Terraform process is using the state and the above fix doesn’t work, you can force-unlock. If you manage Azure infrastructure with Terraform, you