Terraform destroy

terraform destroy destroy all remote objects managed by a particular Terraform configuration.

https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/commands/destroy.html

Examples

• terraform destroy
• terraform destroy -auto-approve
• terraform destroy -target=your_resource
• terraform destroy -var-file="your_file.tfvars"
• terraform destroy --help

Executions examples

• Example execution terraform destroy
• Example execution terraform destroy aws_instance

Related

• terraform show
• terraform apply
• terraform apply -destroy
• terraform state rm
• Still destroying...
• Destroy complete! Resources: 39 destroyed.

Errors

• DependencyViolation: .../... has dependencies and cannot be deleted.

Related terms

• Example execution terraform destroy aws instance

Activities

• How to destroy all resources except one?

See also

• terraform [ destroy | -target=resource | --help ] Still destroying..., Error: deleting, DependencyViolation
• Terraform configuration files, Terraform state files: .tf, .tfvars, main.tf, outputs.tf, variables.tf, .terraform.d/, terraform init, providers.tf, .terraform/, terraform.tfstate, .terraform.lock.hcl, terraform.tfstate.d, override.tf, versions.tf