Terraform Commands

Infrastructure as code.

Workflow

terraform init

Initializes a working directory — downloads providers and modules, and sets up the backend.

terraform plan

Shows what changes Terraform would make without actually applying them.

terraform apply

Applies the changes required to reach the desired state described in your configuration.

terraform destroy

Destroys all resources managed by the current Terraform configuration.

terraform fmt

Rewrites configuration files to a canonical format and style.

terraform validate

Checks whether a configuration is syntactically valid and internally consistent.

terraform output

Prints the values of output variables defined in the configuration.

State

terraform state list

Lists every resource currently tracked in the state file.

terraform state show

Shows the current state attributes of a single resource.

terraform import

Brings an existing, manually-created resource under Terraform management by adding it to the state.