ProviderConfig Terraform State README

[dmlayton]

Under "Known limitations" in the README it says:
You must either use remote state or ensure the provider container's /tf directory is not lost. provider-terraform does not persist state; consider using the [Kubernetes](https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/settings/backends/kubernetes.html) remote state backend.

But the default provider config includes:

 terraform {
      backend "kubernetes" {
        secret_suffix     = "providerconfig-aws-eu-west-1"
        namespace         = "upbound-system"
        in_cluster_config = true
      }
    }

Is this not doing just that? Is this part of the README wrong?

[bobh66]

This is simply an example of a ProviderConfig - and in fact it's "wrong" if you are using the community version of Crossplane and not the Upbound version, since it has namespace "upbound-system" instead of "crossplane-system". The goal of the statement in the README is to ensure that it is clear that there is NO state persisted by default and you MUST ensure that the ProviderConfig(s) that you use include some sort of backend definition. Running with no backend defined will not work.