I would like to run terraform only for a specific resource

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negabaro picture negabaro · Oct 16, 2017 · Viewed 13.4k times · Source

It takes a long time to run terraform and wait. So I would like to run it to exclude rds that takes the longest time to excute or I would like to run only ec2 resource. Is there a way to do such things in terraform?

Answer

Julio Daniel Reyes picture Julio Daniel Reyes · Oct 16, 2017

You can use -target=resource like this:

terraform plan -target=module.mymodule.aws_instance.myinstance
terraform apply -target=module.mymodule.aws_instance.myinstance

or

terraform plan -target=aws_instance.myinstance
terraform apply -target=aws_instance.myinstance

Disclaimer: Before downvoting the answer, please note that he actually asked to either "exclude" or "run only ec2 resource". And after all this time the exclude feature request is still open in the terraform repo.

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