Command: destroy
The terraform destroy command is a convenient way to destroy all remote
objects managed by a particular Terraform configuration.
While you will typically not want to destroy long-lived objects in a production
environment, Terraform is sometimes used to manage ephemeral infrastructure
for development purposes, in which case you can use terraform destroy to
conveniently clean up all of those temporary objects once you are finished
with your work.
Usage
Usage: terraform destroy [options]
This command is just a convenience alias for the following command:
$ terraform apply -destroy
For that reason, this command accepts most of the options that
terraform apply accepts, although it does
not accept a plan file argument and forces the selection of the "destroy"
planning mode.
You can also create a speculative destroy plan, to see what the effect of destroying would be, by running the following command:
$ terraform plan -destroy
This will run terraform plan in destroy mode, showing
you the proposed destroy changes without executing them.
Note
The `-destroy` option to `terraform apply` exists only in Terraform v0.15.2 and later. For earlier versions, you _must_ use `terraform destroy` to get the effect of `terraform apply -destroy`.Target a specific resource
You can use the -target option to destroy a particular resource and its dependencies: