Terraform validate

terraform validate

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

Example

terraform validate
Success! The configuration is valid.

Error: Could not load plugin

 terraform validate
╷
│ Error: Could not load plugin
│
│
│ Plugin reinitialization required. Please run "terraform init".
│
│ Plugins are external binaries that Terraform uses to access and manipulate
│ resources. The configuration provided requires plugins which can't be
│ located,
│ don't satisfy the version constraints, or are otherwise incompatible.
│
│ Terraform automatically discovers provider requirements from your
│ configuration, including providers used in child modules. To see the
│ requirements and constraints, run "terraform providers".
│
│ failed to instantiate provider "registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/aws" to
│ obtain schema: unknown provider "registry.terraform.io/hashicorp/aws"
│
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Related commands

• terraform fmt -check
• terraform plan
• terraform state, terraform state show
• terraform fmt
• Test mode
• aws cloudformation validate-template

See also

• terraform [untaint | fmt | apply |show | state | init | plan | console | output | validate | destroy | debug | import | providers | get | graph | workspaces | resource | login | -var-file | state mv | state pull | state push | state replace-provider | state rm | force-unlock | env | tfe | --version | remote-exec | delete on termination | deprecated commands | terraform --help]
• 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