I’ve been, rightly, downvoted in r/terraform for recommending using -target in production. I say "rightly" because I know it’s a controversial suggestion and I’ve just sort of dropped it like a bomb without defending my position. So here is my defense. tl;dr When and how to use -target My concrete recommendation on when to use -target is as follows: If your infrastructure is hitting the point that plan operations are taking too long and slowing you down, rather than refactor your code i...
