Demo
Blank Apply: Destroying Without Terraform Configuration
In this demo you'll see how to destroy infrastructure created with HashiCorp Terraform in a clean and easy way using a simple technique called a "blank apply," along with some of the pitfalls you might run into.
Have you ever created infrastructure with HashiCorp Terraform and then lost the configuration? If you still have the state, you can painstakingly dissect it to find the resources it made and manually reassemble a configuration, or you can manually destroy the resources. To save time, there is a much simpler technique that can be summed up as simply a "blank apply."
What You'll Learn
In this demo you'll see how to wipe away infrastructure in a clean and easy way, along with some of the pitfalls you might run into.
Speaker: Sunil Chopra
