Sometimes it can be necessary to change a key in the Terraform Cloud state without changing the Terraform files.

1. Change the backend.tf definition to:

terraform {
  backend "remote" {
    organization = "org"
    hostname = "app.terraform.io"
    workspaces {
      name = "workspace"
    }
  }
}

2. Ensure your ~/.terraformrc is available

credentials "app.terraform.io" {
  token = "token from https://app.terraform.io/app/settings/tokens"
}

3. Test if the connection works

terraform state list

4. Remove the actual key

terraform state rm 'module.something.something_config_map.auth[0]'

5. When done, remove the ~/.terraformrc file and undo the backend.tf changes to avoid accidents

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