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terraform plan

Generate and show Terraform execution plans. More information: https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/commands/plan.html.
  • 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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