Terraform destroy

terraform destroy --help
Usage: terraform destroy [options] [DIR]

  Destroy Terraform-managed infrastructure.

Options:

  -backup=path           Path to backup the existing state file before
                         modifying. Defaults to the "-state-out" path with
                         ".backup" extension. Set to "-" to disable backup.

  -auto-approve          Skip interactive approval before destroying.

  -force                 Deprecated: same as auto-approve.

  -lock=true             Lock the state file when locking is supported.

  -lock-timeout=0s       Duration to retry a state lock.

  -no-color              If specified, output won't contain any color.

  -parallelism=n         Limit the number of concurrent operations.
                         Defaults to 10.

  -refresh=true          Update state prior to checking for differences. This
                         has no effect if a plan file is given to apply.

  -state=path            Path to read and save state (unless state-out
                         is specified). Defaults to "terraform.tfstate".

  -state-out=path        Path to write state to that is different than
                         "-state". This can be used to preserve the old
                         state.

  -target=resource       Resource to target. Operation will be limited to this
                         resource and its dependencies. This flag can be used
                         multiple times.

  -var 'foo=bar'         Set a variable in the Terraform configuration. This
                         flag can be set multiple times.

  -var-file=foo          Set variables in the Terraform configuration from
                         a file. If "terraform.tfvars" or any ".auto.tfvars"
                         files are present, they will be automatically loaded.

See also

• Terraform, OpenTofu, Installation, Terraform AWS, Terraform GCP, Terraform commands, Terraform Cloud, Terraform Enterprise (TFE), HCL, HIL, meta-arguments, providers, modules, resource, provisioners, data sources, backends: remote backends, examples, configuration files, state files, variables, types, Terraform Registry, conditionals: depends_on, functions, Blocks, dynamic blocks, errors, Terragrunt, Terraformer, Terratest, Terraform certifications, Terraform map type, Terraform Associate, Terraform: list type, TF_VAR_, TF_LOG, Terraform provider versioning, Terraform Style Conventions, Required version, Terraform plugin, Terraform Named Values, tags, Changelog, tfsec, tflint, Operators, Expressions: for, splat, Debugging, Namespaces, Terraform Landing Zones, CDKTF, Atmos