terraform

I would like to run terraform only for a specific resource

It takes a long time to run terraform and wait. So I would like to run it to exclude rds that takes the longest time to excute or I would like to run only ec2 resource. Is there a way to do such things in terraform?

Solution

  • You can use -target=resource like this:

    terraform plan -target=module.mymodule.aws_instance.myinstance
terraform apply -target=module.mymodule.aws_instance.myinstance

    or

    terraform plan -target=aws_instance.myinstance
terraform apply -target=aws_instance.myinstance

    Disclaimer: Before downvoting the answer, please note that they actually asked to either "exclude" or "run only ec2 resource". And after all this time the exclude feature request is still open in the terraform repo.