Removing Items from Terraform State

The rm subcommand

The terraform state rm command is used to remove items from the Terraform state.

Syntax

The rm subcommand has the following syntax: terraform state rm [options] ADDRESS.

Use of the terraform state rm command

We can use this command to remove a single resource, a single instance of a resource, entire modules, and more. The resources removed by the command are removed from the state file but aren’t destroyed in the target environment.

The most common use for the rm command is to remove a resource from Terraform management. ...