Terraform plan

terraform plan creates an execution plan.

• https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/commands/plan.html

 terraform init -> terraform plan ->  terraform apply -> terraform show

Command examples

• terraform plan -out=tfplan.out
• terraform plan -out=tfplan
• terraform plan -lock=false
• terraform plan -var-file="your_file.tfvars"
• terraform plan -var=XXXX
• terraform plan --help
• terraform plan -replace=XXXX

https://www.terraform.io/cli/commands/plan#planning-options

-refresh=false
-replace=ADDRESS
terraform plan -target=ADDRESS

Execution examples

• Examples: terraform plan

Terraform has compared your real infrastructure against your configuration and found no differences, so no changes are needed.

• Terraform plan execution with errors

Related terms

• Terraform examples: Terraform: Hello_world.tf
• GitLab Preview of summary of terraform plan in Merge Requests https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/05/22/gitlab-13-0-released/#review-summary-of-terraform-plan-in-merge-requests
• terraform validate
• terraform apply
• terraform show
• aws cloudformation list-change-sets
• aws cloudformation describe-change-set

See also

• terraform plan: [ -refresh-only | -lock=false | -target | -var-file | will be created | --help], Terraform plan errors, Terraform plan examples, Terraform plan execution errors, (known after apply)
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