How to discard certain resources not to be taken by terraform

[Bubunia Patra]

Hi all,

I have x set of.tf files in a directory. I want when I perform 'terraform apply
' I want certain resources should not be created and ignored by terraform. Is it possible?

I don't want to delete the extra set of tf files from the directory and terraform should not create some resources which I want to exclude. If it is possible, how?

Regards
Pradeep

[Andrew Jeffree]

You could use the target option https://www.terraform.io/docs/commands/plan.html#target-resource

But I’m not sure why you only want to create parts for now, in that situation I’d use git stash or similar

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[Josh Tenzer]

you can separate the resources into different folders, then call them as "modules" in the root. when you run apply, you can use the target to call module.WANTED or just apply to run it all.   you can use module outputs to export any attributes that the two sets of resources need from each other.

[Bent Terp]

The lazy approach could be to simply rename the file of .tf.bak or something - I sometimes do that when I can't be bothered with git stash but just want to do an apply right now and fix something else without deplying the new stuff