diff --git a/plugins/workflows/src/components/BlueprintComponent/FetchTFState.tsx b/plugins/workflows/src/components/BlueprintComponent/FetchTFState.tsx
index 9ed123b..7e988ba 100644
--- a/plugins/workflows/src/components/BlueprintComponent/FetchTFState.tsx
+++ b/plugins/workflows/src/components/BlueprintComponent/FetchTFState.tsx
@@ -1,10 +1,16 @@
 import React from 'react';
-import { makeStyles } from '@material-ui/core/styles';
 import { Table, TableColumn, Progress } from '@backstage/core-components';
-import {tfstate} from "./terraform"
 import Alert from '@material-ui/lab/Alert';
 import useAsync from 'react-use/lib/useAsync';
 
+import {
+  DiscoveryApi,
+  discoveryApiRef,
+  useApi,
+} from '@backstage/core-plugin-api';
+// eslint-disable-next-line no-restricted-imports
+import {gunzipSync} from "zlib";
+
 type TFState = {
   terraform_version: string
   resources: {
@@ -53,17 +59,27 @@ export const TFTable = (props: TFTableProps) => {
 }
 
 export const FetchTFState = () => {
+  const discoveryApi = useApi(discoveryApiRef);
+  const { value, loading, error } = useAsync((): Promise<TFState> => {
+    return getTFState("tfstate-default-helloworld", "flux-system", discoveryApi)
+  } )
+  if (loading) {
+    return <Progress />
+  } else if (error) {
+    return <Alert severity="error">{error}</Alert>;
+  }
 
-  const tfdata = tfstate as TFState
-  const resources =  tfdata.resources.map(value => {
+  // const a = await getTFState("tfstate-default-helloworld", "flux-system", discoveryApi)
+  // const tfdata = tfstate as TFState
+  const resources =  value!.resources.map(val => {
     const out: Resource = {
-      name: value.name,
-      provider: value.provider,
-      type: value.type,
+      name: val.name,
+      provider: val.provider,
+      type: val.type,
     }
-    if (value.instances.length > 0) {
-      out.arn = value.instances[0].attributes.arn
-      out.id = value.instances[0].attributes.id
+    if (val.instances.length > 0) {
+      out.arn = val.instances[0].attributes.arn
+      out.id = val.instances[0].attributes.id
     }
     return out
   })
@@ -84,3 +100,49 @@ export const FetchTFState = () => {
   //
   // return <DenseTable users={value || []} />;
 };
+
+
+type payload = {
+  kind: string
+  apiVersion: string
+  metadata: {
+    annotations: {
+      [key: string]: string
+    }
+  }
+  type: string
+  data: {
+    tfstate: string
+  }
+}
+
+async function getTFState(name: string, namespace: string, discoveryApi: DiscoveryApi): Promise<TFState> {
+  const kubernetesBaseUrl = await discoveryApi.getBaseUrl('kubernetes');
+  const kubernetesProxyEndpoint = `${kubernetesBaseUrl}/proxy`;
+  return new Promise(async (resolve, reject) => {
+    const resp = await fetch(`${kubernetesProxyEndpoint}/api/v1/namespaces/${namespace}/secrets/${name}`, {
+      method: 'GET',
+      headers: {
+        'X-Kubernetes-Cluster': "canoe-packaging",
+        Authorization: `Bearer TOKEN`,
+      },
+    });
+    if (resp.ok) {
+      const payload = await resp.json() as payload
+      const data = Buffer.from(payload.data.tfstate, 'base64')
+      let compression = "gzip"
+      if ( "encoding" in payload.metadata.annotations) {
+        compression = payload.metadata.annotations.encoding
+      }
+      if (compression === "gzip") {
+        const a = gunzipSync(data).toString("utf-8")
+        resolve(JSON.parse(a) as TFState)
+      }
+      reject(`unknown compression method specified: ${compression}`)
+    } else {
+      reject(`Failed to retrieve terraform information: ${resp.status}: ${resp.statusText} `)
+    }
+  })
+}
+
+