plan + apply with saved plan and remote state generates local state

[sarahhodne]

If I use terraform plan -out=terraform.tfplan and then terraform apply terraform.tfplan, it seems to apply it to a local state instead of a remote state:

% terraform plan -out terraform.tfplan
Refreshing Terraform state prior to plan...

[ ... snip Refreshing state ... ]

The Terraform execution plan has been generated and is shown below.
Resources are shown in alphabetical order for quick scanning. Green resources
will be created (or destroyed and then created if an existing resource
exists), yellow resources are being changed in-place, and red resources
will be destroyed.

Your plan was also saved to the path below. Call the "apply" subcommand
with this plan file and Terraform will exactly execute this execution
plan.

Path: terraform.tfplan

+/- etc.

% terraform apply terraform.tfplan
<applies normally>
% terraform plan -out=terraform.tfplan
Error loading state: Remote state enabled, but state file 'terraform.tfstate' also present.

The remote state (on Atlas) didn't get updated at all, so the states are now out of sync. It seems mv terraform.tfstate .terraform/terraform.tfstate && terraform push fixed that, though.

[armon]

I just repro'd this. Looking into it.

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