tldr/pages/common/terraform-plan.md

terraform plan

Generate and show Terraform execution plans. More information: https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/commands/plan.html.

• 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}}