Terraform Cheat Sheet – 21 Terraform CLI Commands & Examples

This guide provides a comprehensive cheat sheet for commonly used commands on the Terraform Command Line Interface (CLI). It covers various aspects such as getting help, version checking, code formatting, initializing directories, downloading and installing modules, validating code, planning infrastructure, deploying and destroying infrastructure, tainting or untainting resources, refreshing state files, importing existing infrastructure, managing workspaces, viewing outputs, releasing locks on workspaces, logging in and out to remote hosts, producing dependency diagrams, testing expressions, and using Spacelift with Terraform. The guide is written using the latest version of Terraform at the time of writing, v.1.1.9, and aims to help users get straight to the command they need when working with Terraform CLI.

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