Viewing Resource Attributes in Terraform State
Learn how to use the show subcommand in Terraform.
The show
subcommand
The terraform state show
command is used to show the attributes of a single resource in the
Terraform state.
Syntax
The show
subcommand has the following syntax: terraform state show [options] ADDRESS
.
Arguments
The ADDRESS
specified by the show
subcommand must be an instance of a resource and not a grouping of resources created by count or for_each
. The attributes of the resource are listed in alphabetical
order and are sent to stdout
for consumption by some type of parsing engine.
Use of the terraform state show
command
The most common use for this command is to inspect the values stored in particular attributes. A secondary process could use the output to initiate the post-configuration of an instance or be fed into a configuration management database (CMDB).
How to apply Terraform state show
command
Let’s say we want to view the properties of our aws_s3_bucket
resource. We run the following command to see the attributes of the resource in the Terraform state:
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