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I worked on an older Terraform project that managed a full EKS stack: VPC, cluster, node groups, storage, and around ten Kubernetes add-ons. The whole stack lived in one main.tf file with more than a thousand lines.

It worked. It was also hard to change. Adding one add-on meant scrolling through networking, IAM, EKS, and Helm resources just to find the right place.

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├── main.tf      # 1000+ lines: VPC, EKS, add-ons, storage
├── variables.tf
├── outputs.tf
├── providers.tf
├── backend.tf
└── vars.tfvars

I wanted modules, but I did not want Terraform to recreate a live VPC with an EKS cluster attached to it. The refactor had to move code and state together.