Terraform lifecycle: prevent destroy

prevent_destroy

• Terraform lifecycle meta-argument

#Ignore AMI changes
resource "aws_instance" "your_instance" {
  lifecycle {
    ignore_changes = [ami]
    prevent_destroy = true
  }
}

Related

• Terraform best practices
• deletion_protection in aws_db_instance
• enable_deletion_protection in aws_lb
• Terraform resource: aws_s3_versioning
• publicly_accessible
• AWS AMI
• ec2:TerminateInstances deny policy for production

See also

• Lifecycle, AWS EC2 Instance lifecycle, AWS S3 lifecycle, Container Lifecycle Events, ignore_changes, prevent_destroy, Object Lifecycle Management
• Terraform: Meta-Arguments: count, depends_on, lifecycle: [ prevent_destroy | ignore_changes ]
• Terraform best practices, helpers/, prevent_destroy
• AWS resilence
• GCP resilience, prevent_destroy (Terraform), --deletion-protection, GKE Backup