Command: destroy

The opentf destroy command is a convenient way to destroy all remote objects managed by a particular OpenTF configuration.

While you will typically not want to destroy long-lived objects in a production environment, OpenTF is sometimes used to manage ephemeral infrastructure for development purposes, in which case you can use opentf destroy to conveniently clean up all of those temporary objects once you are finished with your work.

Usage​

Usage: opentf destroy [options]

This command is just a convenience alias for the following command:

opentf apply -destroy

For that reason, this command accepts most of the options that opentf 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:

opentf plan -destroy

This will run opentf plan in destroy mode, showing you the proposed destroy changes without executing them.