Terraform lifecycle meta-argument

• https://www.terraform.io/language/meta-arguments/lifecycle

• create_before_destroy changes default behavior so that the new replacement object is created first, and the prior object is destroyed after the replacement is created.
• prevent_destroy
• ignore_changes
• replace_triggered_by (May 2022, v1.2.0)

Examples

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "example" {
  # ...

  lifecycle {
    create_before_destroy = true
  }
}

  lifecycle {
    ignore_changes = [
      latest_restorable_time
    ]
  }

Related

• meta-argument

See also

• Terraform: Meta-Arguments: count, depends_on, lifecycle: [ prevent_destroy | ignore_changes ]
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