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terraform console — Start an interactive console for evaluating Terraform expressions. More information: <https://develo

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Problem

How to use the terraform console command: Start an interactive console for evaluating Terraform expressions. More information: <https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/console>.

Solution

terraform console — Start an interactive console for evaluating Terraform expressions. More information: <https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/console>.

Start an interactive console to evaluate expressions:

terraform console

Evaluate expressions against the planned state instead of current state:

terraform console -plan

Evaluate a specific expression non-interactively:

echo "{{expression}}" | terraform console

Specify values for input variables:

terraform console -var '{{name1}}={{value1}}' -var '{{name2}}={{value2}}'

Specify values for input variables from a file:

terraform console -var-file {{path/to/file.tfvars}}

Code Snippets

Start an interactive console to evaluate expressions

terraform console

Evaluate expressions against the planned state instead of current state

terraform console -plan

Evaluate a specific expression non-interactively

echo "{{expression}}" | terraform console

Specify values for input variables

terraform console -var '{{name1}}={{value1}}' -var '{{name2}}={{value2}}'

Specify values for input variables from a file

terraform console -var-file {{path/to/file.tfvars}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/terraform console

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