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Avleen, I think this is a great idea. Learning a technology is not just about installing an application, but how to make it scale and how it functions under load....

@Madko Consider watching [Issue 382](https://github.com/opentofu/opentofu/issues/382). It doesn't directly meet your need, but I mention it as I expect if it's accepted that this request becomes more feasible.

I'm eager for pointers and feedback. I don't have any tests around the flag itself, I'll look into adding those.

I'll ask @schollii to weigh in on his thoughts; he had the original request. My opinion? Do both. : ) Even if we have a jsonl logfile record to review...

An interesting idea. In looking at the [architecture doc](https://github.com/opentffoundation/opentf/blob/main/docs/architecture.md#backends): > As described above, the local backend also executes operations on behalf of most other backends. It uses a state manager...

@clementd64 asserts: > You will always be bounded to that services. "Always" seems a bit strong; "likely" sounds better. I could imagine a git backend that could take any service;...

@marcinwyszynski in your mock, you have `provider` initializing the backend configuration. I've not dug into the code, but in reading through the [architecture doc](https://github.com/opentffoundation/opentf/blob/main/docs/architecture.md) providers aren't mentioned until 'Graph Builder'...

> If both targets and excludes are provided it can either: > - Have excludes override targets (plan/apply this list of targets, except this list of excludes) > - Return...

> Also since we can't change TFE which is imported from a Hashicorp project, I presume there would be backends that we can't support this flag for? At the very...

Just a quick call out: in reading the issue, I saw the link to `/docs/downloads` and assumed it links internally to our repo (as a convenience to find what's been...