How to remove a resource from Terraform state

Question

Hi Guys,

I have some resources in the Terraform state file. Now I want to remove one resource from the file. How can I do that?

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

First, you need to remove the resource from the state file by running terraform state rm <resource-id>, and then you need to delete the associated configuration from your codebase. After that, you can run init, plan command and you will see no changes are required.