Terraform Command Lines (CLIs)

Command	Usage Description
terraform init	Used to initialize a working directory containing Terraform configuration files
terraform plan	Creates an execution plan, which lets you preview the changes that Terraform plans to make to your infrastructure.
terraform workspace show	Used to output the current workspace
terraform workspace new dev	Used to create a new workspace
terraform apply	The terraform apply command executes the actions proposed in a Terraform plan.
terraform destory	Terminates resources defined in your Terraform configuration
terraform plan -destroy	Showing you the proposed destroy changes without executing them.
terraform refresh	Reads the current settings from all managed remote objects and updates the Terraform state to match
terraform force-unlock LOCK_ID	Forcible unlock the state file
terraform taint	Informs Terraform that a particular object has become degraded or damaged
terraform fmt	Used to rewrite Terraform configuration files to a canonical format and style
terraform state mv	Changes bindings in Terraform state, associating existing remote objects with new resource instances
terraform state push	Used to manually upload a local state file to remote state
terraform providers	Shows information about the provider requirements of the configuration in the current working directory,
terraform init --upgrade	Downloads and upgrades the plugins
terraform import	This functionality helps update the state locally and it does not create the corresponding configuration automatically
terraform graph	Command generates a visual representation of a configuration or execution plan that you can use to generate charts
terraform apply -var -file="testing.tfvars"	Executes the plan with input variables from the var file
terraform workspace new dev	Create a new workspace
terraform workspace select dev	Navigates to selected workspace
terraform state rm	This command can remove single resources, single instances of a resource, entire modules, and mor
terraform state pull	Command is used to manually download and output the state from remote state
terraform state list	The command will list all resources in the state file matching the given addresses
terraform get	The terraform get command is used to download and update modules mentioned in the root module
terraform import aws_instance.myec2 instance-id	Import only the mentioned instance/resources or an object in the state file without creating the configuration file
terraform destory -target aws_instance.my_ec2	destroys only the mentioned instance/resources or an object
terraform show	Command is used to provide human-readable output from a state or plan file
terraform output variable_name	Command is used to extract the value of an output variable from the state file
terraform workspace delete	To delete workspace
terraform workspace list	Will list all existing workspaces