diff --git a/launch/.gitignore b/launch/.gitignore
index c0b634d3..0f8ba9b3 100644
--- a/launch/.gitignore
+++ b/launch/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-# .terraform/
+.terraform/
 .terraform.tfstate.lock.info
 terraform.tfstate*
diff --git a/launch/.terraform/providers/registry.opentofu.org/hashicorp/external/2.3.4/linux_amd64 b/launch/.terraform/providers/registry.opentofu.org/hashicorp/external/2.3.4/linux_amd64
deleted file mode 120000
index e74641a1..00000000
--- a/launch/.terraform/providers/registry.opentofu.org/hashicorp/external/2.3.4/linux_amd64
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/nix/store/mnqkwjg5v6sx86an34b4cn075h0lapz3-opentofu-1.8.7/libexec/terraform-providers/registry.opentofu.org/hashicorp/external/2.3.4/linux_amd64
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/launch/.terraform/providers/registry.opentofu.org/hashicorp/null/3.2.3/linux_amd64 b/launch/.terraform/providers/registry.opentofu.org/hashicorp/null/3.2.3/linux_amd64
deleted file mode 120000
index 18952a18..00000000
--- a/launch/.terraform/providers/registry.opentofu.org/hashicorp/null/3.2.3/linux_amd64
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-/nix/store/mnqkwjg5v6sx86an34b4cn075h0lapz3-opentofu-1.8.7/libexec/terraform-providers/registry.opentofu.org/hashicorp/null/3.2.3/linux_amd64
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/launch/tf-env.nix b/launch/tf-env.nix
index eb1e3161..817c6e23 100644
--- a/launch/tf-env.nix
+++ b/launch/tf-env.nix
@@ -17,10 +17,10 @@ pkgs.stdenv.mkDerivation {
     # pass nixos-anywhere path to TF through variable
     # when switching TF to nix take this directly from `inputs`
     # https://codeberg.org/kiara/e2ed-hetzner/commit/84b2a349d3e48ea2a17340bceff762d834fd4046
-    # echo "{\"nixos-anywhere\": \"${sources.nixos-anywhere}\"}" > .auto.tfvars.json
+    echo "{\"nixos-anywhere\": \"${sources.nixos-anywhere}\"}" > .auto.tfvars.json
 
     # point to the relevant providers
-    # tofu init -input=false
+    tofu init -input=false
 
     popd
     runHook postBuild