OpenTofu

Applying Commands

Apply changes to infrastructure, create, update, and destroy resources.

9 commands

Pro Tips

Apply saved plans for deterministic deployments

Common Mistakes

Always run plan before apply in production

Commands

Apply changes

$ tofu apply

Apply infrastructure changes.

Apply saved plan

$ tofu apply tfplan

Apply from saved plan file.

Auto-approve

$ tofu apply -auto-approve

Apply without confirmation.

Destroy resources

$ tofu destroy

Destroy all resources.

Target specific resource

$ tofu apply -target=aws_instance.web

Apply to specific resource.

Set parallelism

$ tofu apply -parallelism=20

Apply with custom parallelism limit.

Replace resource

$ tofu apply -replace=aws_instance.web

Force-replace a specific resource.

Refresh-only apply

$ tofu apply -refresh-only -auto-approve

Update state to match real resources.

Destroy auto-approve

$ tofu destroy -auto-approve

Destroy all resources without confirmation.