2 years ago

Category: Business, Cloud, Infrastructure, Hashicorp

Make changes to your infrastructure in Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise faster with the new -refresh=false, -refresh-only, and replace planning options. HashiCorp Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise now offer new options to provide more explicit control over when resource state is refreshed and when resources need to be replaced.

The Terraform plan and apply workflow normally begins with a preemptive refresh of the state of your infrastructure — this ensures that any changes that have happened out-of-band are detected and that your infrastructure converges back to what is defined in code.

The -replace planning option provides an improved way to replace degraded resources as a single atomic operation within a Terraform plan, avoiding potential race conditions in the highly collaborative environment of Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise.

This is similar to the workflow customers may be familiar with using the previous taint subcommand, but now batched into a single atomic command that is consistent with the collaboration expectation of Terraform Cloud and Terraform Enterprise customers.