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---
layout: "docs"
page_title: "Command: untaint"
sidebar_current: "docs-commands-untaint"
description: |-
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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The `terraform untaint` command tells Terraform that an object is functioning
correctly, even though its creation failed or it was previously manually
marked as degraded.
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---
# Command: untaint
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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Terraform has a marker called "tainted" which it uses to track that an object
might be damaged and so a future Terraform plan ought to replace it.
command: Add `terraform untaint` - [x] Docs - [x] Command Unit Tests - [x] State Unit Tests Closes #4820
2016-03-08 21:37:34 +01:00
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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Terraform automatically marks an object as "tainted" if an error occurs during
a multi-step "create" action, because Terraform can't be sure that the object
was left in a fully-functional state.
command: Add `terraform untaint` - [x] Docs - [x] Command Unit Tests - [x] State Unit Tests Closes #4820
2016-03-08 21:37:34 +01:00
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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You can also manually mark an object as "tainted" using the deprecated command
[`terraform taint`](./taint.html), although we no longer recommend that
workflow.
command: Add `terraform untaint` - [x] Docs - [x] Command Unit Tests - [x] State Unit Tests Closes #4820
2016-03-08 21:37:34 +01:00
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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If Terraform currently considers a particular object as tainted but you've
determined that it's actually functioning correctly and need _not_ be replaced,
you can use `terraform untaint` to remove the taint marker from that object.
command: Add `terraform untaint` - [x] Docs - [x] Command Unit Tests - [x] State Unit Tests Closes #4820
2016-03-08 21:37:34 +01:00
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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This command _will not_ modify any real remote objects, but will modify the
state in order to remove the tainted status.
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command: New -replace=... planning option This allows a similar effect to pre-tainting an object but does the action within the context of a normal plan and apply, avoiding the need for an intermediate state where the old object still exists but is marked as tainted. The core functionality for this was already present, so this commit is just the UI-level changes to make that option available for use and to explain how it contributed to the resulting plan in Terraform's output.
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If you remove the taint marker from an object but then later discover that it
was degraded after all, you can create and apply a plan to replace it without
first re-tainting the object, by using a command like the following:
```
terraform apply -replace="aws_instance.example[0]"
```
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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## Usage
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website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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Usage: `terraform untaint [options] address`
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website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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The `address` argument is a [resource address](/docs/cli/state/resource-addressing.html)
identifying a particular resource instance which is currently tainted.
command: Add `terraform untaint` - [x] Docs - [x] Command Unit Tests - [x] State Unit Tests Closes #4820
2016-03-08 21:37:34 +01:00
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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This command also accepts the following options:
update command docs
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website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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* `-allow-missing` - If specified, the command will succeed (exit code 0)
even if the resource is missing. The command might still return an error
for other situations, such as if there is a problem reading or writing
the state.
update command docs
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command: use -lock=false consistently in -help output Previously the docs for this were rather confusing because they showed an option to turn _on_ state locking, even though it's on by default. Instead, we'll now show -lock=false in all cases and document it as _disabling_ the default locking. While working on this I also noticed that the equivalent docs on the website were differently inconsistent. I've not made them fully consistent here but at least moreso than they were before.
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* `-lock=false` - Don't hold a state lock during the operation. This is
dangerous if others might concurrently run commands against the same
workspace.
command: Add `terraform untaint` - [x] Docs - [x] Command Unit Tests - [x] State Unit Tests Closes #4820
2016-03-08 21:37:34 +01:00
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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* `-lock-timeout=DURATION` - Unless locking is disabled with `-lock=false`,
instructs Terraform to retry acquiring a lock for a period of time before
returning an error. The duration syntax is a number followed by a time
unit letter, such as "3s" for three seconds.
command: Add `terraform untaint` - [x] Docs - [x] Command Unit Tests - [x] State Unit Tests Closes #4820
2016-03-08 21:37:34 +01:00
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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* `-no-color` - Disables terminal formatting sequences in the output. Use this
if you are running Terraform in a context where its output will be
rendered by a system that cannot interpret terminal formatting.
backend: Validate remote backend Terraform version When using the enhanced remote backend, a subset of all Terraform operations are supported. Of these, only plan and apply can be executed on the remote infrastructure (e.g. Terraform Cloud). Other operations run locally and use the remote backend for state storage. This causes problems when the local version of Terraform does not match the configured version from the remote workspace. If the two versions are incompatible, an `import` or `state mv` operation can cause the remote workspace to be unusable until a manual fix is applied. To prevent this from happening accidentally, this commit introduces a check that the local Terraform version and the configured remote workspace Terraform version are compatible. This check is skipped for commands which do not write state, and can also be disabled by the use of a new command-line flag, `-ignore-remote-version`. Terraform version compatibility is defined as: - For all releases before 0.14.0, local must exactly equal remote, as two different versions cannot share state; - 0.14.0 to 1.0.x are compatible, as we will not change the state version number until at least Terraform 1.1.0; - Versions after 1.1.0 must have the same major and minor versions, as we will not change the state version number in a patch release. If the two versions are incompatible, a diagnostic is displayed, advising that the error can be suppressed with `-ignore-remote-version`. When this flag is used, the diagnostic is still displayed, but as a warning instead of an error. Commands which will not write state can assert this fact by calling the helper `meta.ignoreRemoteBackendVersionConflict`, which will disable the checks. Those which can write state should instead call the helper `meta.remoteBackendVersionCheck`, which will return diagnostics for display. In addition to these explicit paths for managing the version check, we have an implicit check in the remote backend's state manager initialization method. Both of the above helpers will disable this check. This fallback is in place to ensure that future code paths which access state cannot accidentally skip the remote version check.
2020-11-13 22:43:56 +01:00
cli+website: -ignore-remote-version docs and other cleanup We previously had only very short descriptions of what -ignore-remote-version does due to having the documentation for it inline on many different command pages and -help output. Instead, we'll now centralize the documentation about this argument on the remote backend page, and link to it or refer to it from all other locations. This then allows us to spend more words on discussing what Terraform normally does _without_ this option and warning about the consequences of using it. This continues earlier precedent for some local-backend-specific options which we also don't recommend for typical use. While this does make these options a little more "buried" than before, that feels justified given that they are all "exceptional use only" sort of options where users ought to learn about various caveats before using them. While there I also took this opportunity to fix some earlier omissions with the local-backend-specific options and a few other minor consistency tweaks.
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For configurations using
[the `remote` backend](/docs/language/settings/backends/remote.html)
only, `terraform untaint`
also accepts the option
[`-ignore-remote-version`](/docs/language/settings/backends/remote.html#command-line-arguments).
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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For configurations using
[the `local` backend](/docs/language/settings/backends/local.html) only,
cli+website: -ignore-remote-version docs and other cleanup We previously had only very short descriptions of what -ignore-remote-version does due to having the documentation for it inline on many different command pages and -help output. Instead, we'll now centralize the documentation about this argument on the remote backend page, and link to it or refer to it from all other locations. This then allows us to spend more words on discussing what Terraform normally does _without_ this option and warning about the consequences of using it. This continues earlier precedent for some local-backend-specific options which we also don't recommend for typical use. While this does make these options a little more "buried" than before, that feels justified given that they are all "exceptional use only" sort of options where users ought to learn about various caveats before using them. While there I also took this opportunity to fix some earlier omissions with the local-backend-specific options and a few other minor consistency tweaks.
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`terraform untaint` also accepts the legacy options
website: Reworking of the "terraform plan" docs, and related pages It's been a long time since we gave this page an overhaul, and with our ongoing efforts to make plan and apply incorporate all of the side-effects that might need to be done against a configuration it seems like a good time for some restructuring in that vein. The starting idea here is to formally split the many "terraform plan" options into a few different categories: - Planning modes - Planning options - Other options The planning modes and options are the subset that are also accepted by "terraform apply" when it's running in its default mode of generating a plan and then prompting for interactive approval of it. This then allows us to avoid duplicating all of that information on the "terraform apply" page, and thus allows us to spend more words discussing each of them. This set of docs is intended as a fresh start into which we'll be able to more surgically add in the information about -refresh-only and -replace=... once we have those implemented. Consequently there are some parts of this which may seem a little overwraught for what it's currently describing; that's a result of my having prepared this by just deleting the -refresh-only and -replace=... content from our initial docs draft and submitted the result, in anticipation of re-adding the parts I've deleted here in the very near future in other commits.
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[`-state`, `-state-out`, and `-backup`](/docs/language/settings/backends/local.html#command-line-arguments).