We have a new concise diff renderer, released today in Terraform 0.14.0-alpha20200910. This post explains why we’ve taken this approach, how the rendering algorithm works, and asks for your feedback. You can try out this feature today: Download Terraform 0.14.0-alpha20200910 Review the changelog M…

That looks nice, indeed. For example, when I change a CloudFront distribution now (0.13.x), I “must read” all the attributes in the plan output but I don’t need/want this. So is it going to be an optional feature enabled with -concise flag?

[image] vasylenko: So is it going to be an optional feature enabled with -concise flag? We intend this to be the new behaviour of the plan diff, and there will not be a command-line switch. For 0.14.0, our plan is to ship this as an experiment, but enabled by default. The experiment can be d…

How does this affect or change the JSON output from a show?

@kmfk There’s no change to the JSON output as a result of this work. It’s purely a text UI change.

Fantastic. Also, I did realize literally as I hit submit on that question that I should have just downloaded 0.14 alpha and tried it. Thanks for following up! :slight_smile:

Just getting around to TF 0.14 the last few weeks; the concise plan is super great, a lot less noise/spam - however with that being said, I feel that TF_X_CONCISE_DIFF could be documented within the terraform plan --help text display, and hopefully this option is not removed in the future. There are…

Terraform 0.14: concise plan diff feedback thread

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Terraform 0.14: Concise Plan Diff Terraform	3	2489	November 6, 2020
New concise diff renderer Terraform	2	752	October 15, 2020
Concise diff makes it harder to understand the effect of this plan Terraform	2	1300	August 11, 2021
Get diff-formatted file from `terraform plan` Terraform	3	6465	January 23, 2020
How can I disable the "# resource.foo has been changed" output? Terraform	3	1829	May 26, 2021

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