How it works

A marker on every resource says who owns it. A record per resource holds what cannot be read back. The state file stays, as a cache you may delete.

Each page below is the short answer, with a per-platform table, and links to the full model for the reasoning.

• Identity Which live object a configuration block owns, held on the object itself.
• Records Where the record of each managed instance is kept.
• The cache What the state file is once the record lives elsewhere, and what losing it costs.