Operating terraform destroy will tear down the entire stack related to some terraform code.
Nevertheless, typically you may solely need to take away a selected piece of your infrastructure.
To do that, you should use the terraform destroy -target object.
Step 1 – Listing the State
Get an inventory of all of the assets from the state:
terraform state record
#information.aws_ami.webserver_ami
#aws_autoscaling_group.asg-web[0]
#random_string.rand3
#...
Step 2 – Take away a Particular Useful resource
Run a terraform destroy -target and cross a useful resource from the state record above:
terraform destroy -target aws_autoscaling_group.asg-web[0] -auto-approve
We additionally added a -auto-approve within the above command to mechanically delete the useful resource with out prompting us for affirmation.
