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terraform plan — Generate and show Terraform execution plans. More information: <https://developer.hashicorp.com/terr

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Problem

How to use the terraform plan command: Generate and show Terraform execution plans. More information: <https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/plan>.

Solution

terraform plan — Generate and show Terraform execution plans. More information: <https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/plan>.

Generate and show the execution plan in the current directory:

terraform plan

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

terraform plan -destroy

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

terraform plan -refresh-only

Specify values for input variables:

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

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

terraform plan -target {{resource_type.resource_name[instance_index]}}

Output a plan as JSON:

terraform plan -json

Write a plan to a specific file:

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

Code Snippets

Generate and show the execution plan in the current directory

terraform plan

Show a plan to destroy all remote objects that currently exist

terraform plan -destroy

Show a plan to update the Terraform state and output values

terraform plan -refresh-only

Specify values for input variables

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

Focus Terraform's attention on only a subset of resources

terraform plan -target {{resource_type.resource_name[instance_index]}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/terraform plan

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