Understanding the Terraform life cycle with different command-line options

We have just discovered that applying changes to a piece of infrastructure with Terraform is mainly done using three commands. They include the init, plan, and apply commands. However, Terraform has other very practical and important commands that can be used to best manage the life cycle of our infrastructure, and the question of how to execute Terraform in an automation context such as a CI/CD pipeline must also be considered.

Among the other operations that can be done on a piece of infrastructure is the cleaning up of resources by removing them. This is done to either better rebuild or remove temporary infrastructure.

Using destroy to better rebuild

One of the steps in the life cycle of infrastructure that is maintained by IaC is the removal of the infrastructure; do not forget that one of the objectives and benefits of IaC is to be able to make rapid changes to infrastructure but also create environments...