tofu plan

Generate and show OpenTofu execution plans. More information: https://opentofu.org/docs/cli/commands/plan/.

• Generate and show the execution plan in the currently directory:

tofu plan

• Show a plan to destroy all remote objects that currently exist:

tofu plan -destroy

• Show a plan to update the Tofu state and output values:

tofu plan -refresh-only

• Specify values for input variables:

tofu plan -var '{{name1}}={{value1}}' -var '{{name2}}={{value2}}'

• Focus Tofu’s attention on only a subset of resources:

tofu plan -target {{resource_type.resource_name[instance index]}}

• Output a plan as JSON:

tofu plan -json

• Write a plan to a specific file:

tofu plan -no-color > {{path/to/file}}