OpenTofu

Planning Commands

Create execution plans showing what changes will be made to infrastructure.

9 commands

Pro Tips

Use -out to save plans for later apply

Commands

Create plan

$ tofu plan

Show planned changes.

Save plan

$ tofu plan -out=tfplan

Save plan to file.

Plan with variables

$ tofu plan -var 'region=us-west-2'

Plan with variable override.

Destroy plan

$ tofu plan -destroy

Plan resource destruction.

Plan with var file

$ tofu plan -var-file=prod.tfvars

Plan using a variables file.

Target specific resource

$ tofu plan -target=aws_instance.web

Plan changes for a specific resource only.

Replace resource

$ tofu plan -replace=aws_instance.web

Plan to force-replace a specific resource.

Refresh-only plan

$ tofu plan -refresh-only

Plan to update state without changing resources.

Generate import config

$ tofu plan -generate-config-out=generated.tf

Generate config for imported resources.