A team is using an S3 backend with DynamoDB locking. They have a CI/CD pipeline that runs terraform plan and apply. Occasionally, the pipeline fails with a 'lock acquisition timeout' error. What is the most likely cause and the best solution?

The S3 bucket is not versioned, so state conflicts occur. The solution is to enable versioning.

Multiple pipeline runs are executing concurrently, and they are competing for the lock. The solution is to ensure the pipeline runs sequentially.

The lock is held by a previous run that did not release it. The solution is to manually delete the lock using terraform force-unlock.

The DynamoDB table is not configured correctly, so locking is not working. The solution is to recreate the table.

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A team is using an S3 backend with DynamoDB locking. They have a CI/CD pipeline that runs terraform plan and apply. Occasionally, the pipeline fails with a 'lock acquisition timeout' error. What is the most likely cause and the best solution?

A team is migrating from a local backend to an Azure Storage Account backend. They have updated the backend block in their configuration. What command should they run to migrate the state file to the new backend?

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