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tofu plan — Generate and show OpenTofu execution plans. More information: <https://opentofu.org/docs/cli/command

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Problem

How to use the tofu plan command: Generate and show OpenTofu execution plans. More information: <https://opentofu.org/docs/cli/commands/plan/>.

Solution

tofu plan — Generate and show OpenTofu execution plans. More information: <https://opentofu.org/docs/cli/commands/plan/>.

Generate and show the execution plan in the currently directory:

tofu plan

Show a plan to destroy all remote objects that currently exist:

tofu plan -destroy

Show a plan to update the Tofu state and output values:

tofu plan -refresh-only

Specify values for input variables:

tofu plan -var '{{name1}}={{value1}}' -var '{{name2}}={{value2}}'

Focus Tofu's attention on only a subset of resources:

tofu plan -target {{resource_type.resource_name[instance index]}}

Output a plan as JSON:

tofu plan -json

Write a plan to a specific file:

tofu plan -no-color > {{path/to/file}}

Code Snippets

Generate and show the execution plan in the currently directory

tofu plan

Show a plan to destroy all remote objects that currently exist

tofu plan -destroy

Show a plan to update the Tofu state and output values

tofu plan -refresh-only

Specify values for input variables

tofu plan -var '{{name1}}={{value1}}' -var '{{name2}}={{value2}}'

Focus Tofu's attention on only a subset of resources

tofu plan -target {{resource_type.resource_name[instance index]}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/tofu plan

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