- Basic CLI Features
- Command: destroy
Command: destroy
The tofu destroy
command is a convenient way to destroy all remote
objects managed by a particular OpenTofu configuration.
While you will typically not want to destroy long-lived objects in a production
environment, OpenTofu is sometimes used to manage ephemeral infrastructure
for development purposes, in which case you can use tofu destroy
to
conveniently clean up all of those temporary objects once you are finished
with your work.
Usage
Usage: tofu destroy [options]
This command is just a convenience alias for the following command:
For that reason, this command accepts most of the options that
tofu 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:
This will run tofu plan
in destroy mode, showing
you the proposed destroy changes without executing them.