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by fizlebit 759 days ago
Somewhere in Australia (with Australian accents):

"Hey terraform just output a wall of text, it wants to know whether or not to proceed."

"That's what it does mate. Let it do its thing, she'll be right."

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OK do people not inspect the output? I do every time just in case terraform goes off the deep end and decides on violence
I used to ~own all internal terraform usage at a very large software company. I could talk for hours about all the ways in which the "wall of text" is ineffective at scale. A surprisingly large amount of our technical investment in TF was around improving plan review.
I usually only look deeper if the summary (X created, Y updated, Z deleted) shows some unexpected numbers, especially if the number deleted is not 0. However, if nothing's being deleted, I usually assume it's safe enough.