We’ve now seen how to build and change infrastructure. Before we move on to creating multiple resources and showing resource dependencies, we’re going to go over how to completely destroy the Terraform-managed infrastructure.

Destroying your infrastructure is a rare event in production environments. But if you’re using Terraform to spin up multiple environments such as development, test, QA environments, then destroying is a useful action.

» Destroy

Resources can be destroyed using the terraform destroy command, which is similar to terraform apply but it behaves as if all of the resources have been removed from the configuration.

$ terraform destroy