Terraform CLI Cheat sheet

terraform init

terraform init --backend

terraform fmt
terraform validate

terraform graph > graph.dot

terraform refresh

Fetches the current state of the resources and updates the state file.

terraform plan
terraform plan --out=file_obs_path
terraform plan --refresh=false # will disable querying the current state during plan
terraform plan --target=aws_instance.myec2 #only ec2 resourece named myec2 will be refreshed

Generally displays what changes are going to take place to achieve the desired state.

Apply the desired state from the module.

terraform apply

Apply the desired state from plan output.

terraform apply file_obs_path

terraform import

Reads the state file and displays output_variable_name value

terraform output output_variable_name

Get the list of resources created and stored in statefile

terraform state list

Move resource name within a state.

terraform state mv aws_vpc.this aws_vpc.eks_vpc