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A fellow developer on your team is asking for some help in refactoring their Terraform code. As part of their application's architecture, they are going to tear down an existing deployment managed by Terraform and deploy new. However, there is a server resource named aws_instance.ubuntu[1] they would like to keep to perform some additional analysis.
What command should be used to tell Terraform to no longer manage the resource?

  • A. terraform apply rm aws_instance.ubuntu[1]
  • B. terraform state rm aws_instance.ubuntu[1]
  • C. terraform plan rm aws_instance.ubuntu[1]
  • D. terraform delete aws_instance.ubuntu[1]
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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️
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by Zam88 at June 19, 2022, 2:48 p.m.

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Eltooth
Highly Voted 1 year, 8 months ago
Selected Answer: B
B is correct answer : terraform state rm "You can use terraform state rm in the less common situation where you wish to remove a binding to an existing remote object without first destroying it, which will effectively make Terraform "forget" the object while it continues to exist in the remote system." https://www.terraform.io/cli/commands/state/rm
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Tyler2023
Most Recent 4 months, 1 week ago
The answer is correct based on this https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/state/rm You can use terraform state rm in the less common situation where you wish to remove a binding to an existing remote object without first destroying it, which will effectively make Terraform "forget" the object while it continues to exist in the remote system.
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Ni33
10 months, 1 week ago
Selected Answer: B
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camps
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Selected Answer: B
B. terraform state rm aws_instance.ubuntu[1] To tell Terraform to no longer manage a specific resource, you can use the terraform state rm command. This command removes the specified resource from the Terraform state file, effectively telling Terraform that the resource no longer exists.
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Power123
11 months, 2 weeks ago
B is correct. terraform state rm
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eduvar4
1 year, 5 months ago
Selected Answer: B
https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/state/rm
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habbypat123
1 year, 8 months ago
The answer is B for sure
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Zam88
1 year, 8 months ago
state rm The terraform state rm command is used to remove items from the Terraform state. This command can remove single resources, single instances of a resource, entire modules, and more B
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