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Reading a plan

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Four symbols tell you everything Terraform is about to do.
You'll learn to

read a plan (+ create, ~ update, -/+ replace, - destroy, the summary) and save it with -out

Recap

  1. 1+ create · ~ update in place · -/+ replace · - destroy
  2. 2A replacement counts twice in the summary: once in add, once in destroy
  3. 3terraform plan -out=tfplan, then terraform apply tfplan runs exactly that
Check yourself

Which symbol means Terraform will delete the resource and create it again?

3.4

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