terraform cli commands and more

tf_cheatlist

terraform cheatlist


terraform fmt - formatter
terraform init - initialize tf backend (local one)
terraform plan - 
terraform apply - 
terraform apply -refresh-only

terraform state list
terraform state show
terraform state show “specific resource”
terraform show

terraform apply -destroy (equal to terraform destroy)
terraform plan -destroy

terraform outputs - get specified outputs
terraform output ip_address

terraform console - handy tool

terraform workspace select dev

terraform state rm


remove existing:
-remove from code

destroy:
terraform state list
terraform destroy -target …
terraform state rm … # just to resource from a state. (if was changed manually)

terraform state show module.aml-workspace.azurerm_storage_account.sa

manually edit state file if required (dangerous, make sure you have state file backups)
terraform state pull > tfstatefile
# do required changes
terraform state push tfstatefile
-> if you see something `Failed to write state: cannot overwrite existing state with serial 440 with a different state that has the same serial`, then just increase serial for any number (like +1 or +3)