Migrating from local state to remote state doesn't work

[anubhavmishra]

If a user has initialized a new CDK for Terraform project using the --local option. If they migrate to the remote state using the stack override option, they will need to do a terraform init which will prompt them to copy the local state to the remote state backend. Here is what it looks like.

terraform init

Initializing the backend...
Do you want to copy existing state to the new backend?
  Pre-existing state was found while migrating the previous "local" backend to the
  newly configured "remote" backend. No existing state was found in the newly
  configured "remote" backend. Do you want to copy this state to the new "remote"
  backend? Enter "yes" to copy and "no" to start with an empty state.

  Enter a value:

This will hang if terraform init is triggered via cdktf diff or cdktf deploy as terraform init is waiting for confirmation from the user.

cdktf deploy
⠏ initializing hello-terraform...

We need to provide a path for the user to safely migrate from local to the remote state store.

[anubhavmishra]

I am working to document this issue. We will plan to address when we have thought about the Terraform Cloud workflow.

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