terraform plan

Generate and show Terraform execution plans.

• Generate and show the execution plan in the currently 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}

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