Hello,
As immutable infrastructure I’m deleting my resources terraform resources using terraform destroy before creating new ones using apply.
However if I pass a variable like true or false. can the terraform script stop at destroy and exit else it should continue with apply? Any example would be much appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
If I understand correctly you want a way to prevent you from accidentally destroying your infrastructure?
I had the same need at my company and came up with a procedure using a variable that prevents “production” resources to be deleted:
Take a look at the following explanation (for Terraform 0.11 in AWS):
And a full example with source code for RDS and EC2 updated to Terraform 0.12 at:
Don’t know if there is a better approach.
Regards,
Javier
Dear javier,
Really appreciate your response. Will explore it and let you know. Thank you very much.
Regards
Anil