terraform plan

terraform plan (doc) creates an execution plan.

 terraform init -> terraform plan ->  terraform apply -> terraform show

Command examples

• terraform plan --help
• -no-color
• terraform plan -out=tfplan.out
• terraform plan -out=tfplan
• terraform plan -lock=false
• terraform plan -var-file="your_file.tfvars"
• terraform plan -var=XXXX
• terraform plan -replace=XXXX
• terraform plan -target
• terraform plan -refresh-only
• terraform plan -parallelism
• terraform plan | more -R

https://www.terraform.io/cli/commands/plan#planning-options

-refresh=false
-replace=ADDRESS
terraform plan -target=ADDRESS

tf plan 2>&1

Execution examples

• Examples: terraform plan
• Terraform plan execution with errors

Errors

• Error: Reference to undeclared input variable
• Error: repository has uncommitted files
• The security token included in the request is invalid

2024-07-03T13:44:35.311Z [WARN]  Provider "registry.terraform.io/datadog/datadog" produced an invalid plan for datadog_user.yourusers["yourusername"], but we are tolerating it because it is using the legacy plugin SDK.
   The following problems may be the cause of any confusing errors from downstream operations:
     - .send_user_invitation: planned value cty.True for a non-computed ...

Related terms

• Terraform examples: Terraform: Hello_world.tf
• GitLab Preview of summary of terraform plan in Merge Requests https://about.gitlab.com/releases/2020/05/22/gitlab-13-0-released/#review-summary-of-terraform-plan-in-merge-requests
• terraform validate, terraform apply, terraform show
• aws cloudformation list-change-sets
• aws cloudformation describe-change-set
• terragrunt plan
• terraform debug
• export TF_LOG=DEBUG
• ReferenceTransformer
• Plan: 0 to add, 0 to change, 0 to destroy.
• terraform test
• Consider separate credentials for Terraform plan and apply

See also

• terraform plan: [ -refresh-only | -lock=false | -target | -var-file | will be created | --help], Terraform plan errors, Terraform plan examples, Terraform plan execution errors, (known after apply)