Lifecycle
Explore how to manage Terraform resources effectively by using lifecycle blocks. Learn to apply create_before_destroy, prevent_destroy, and ignore_changes settings to maintain control over resource creation, destruction, and updates. This lesson helps you understand when and how to use these lifecycle options to ensure stable and predictable infrastructure configurations.
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Lifecycle
Every resource has a special block that can be set on it called the lifecycle block. This gives you, the creator, a bit more control as to the lifecycle of the resource. Let’s run through the options that
you can configure using the lifecycle block.
create_before_destroy is a bool that you can set on a resource. For example:
Setting this property means that, as long as the backend API allows, Terraform will create ...