Understanding the Terraform CLI commands

The Terraform CLI supports many commands, and in this section we will try to cover some of the main commands and their respective outputs. We will discuss the Terraform workflows in our upcoming chapter, Chapter 6, Terraform Workflows, but we will now discuss some of the basic the Terraform CLI commands, as follows:

• terraform console: You can run this command on the CLI to open a Terraform console, where you can test or get the output of the code of certain Terraform functions. The following example shows how you can use this command:

  $ terraform console
  > max(5,10,-5)
  10
  >

• terraform fmt: You can run this command to rewrite configuration files to a canonical format and style. This command performs some sort of adjustment so that your configuration code is in a readable format, and even helps you make some changes to follow Terraform's language-style conventions. To know more about Terraform language-style conventions,...