terraform plan

Generate and show Terraform execution plans. More information: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/plan.

• Generate and show the execution plan in the currently directory:

terraform plan

• Show a plan to destroy all remote objects that currently exist:

terraform plan -destroy

• Show a plan to update the Terraform state and output values:

terraform plan -refresh-only

• Specify values for input variables:

terraform plan -var 'name1=value1' -var 'name2=value2'

• Focus Terraform's attention on only a subset of resources:

terraform plan -target resource_type.resource_name[instance index]

• Output a plan as JSON:

terraform plan -json

• Write a plan to a specific file:

terraform plan -no-color > path/to/file