I would like to run terraform only for a specific resource

It takes a long time to run terraform and wait. So I would like to run it to exclude rds that takes the longest time to excute or I would like to run only ec2 resource. Is there a way to do such things in terraform?

Solution 1:

You can use -target=resource like this:

terraform plan -target=module.mymodule.aws_instance.myinstance
terraform apply -target=module.mymodule.aws_instance.myinstance

or

terraform plan -target=aws_instance.myinstance
terraform apply -target=aws_instance.myinstance

Disclaimer: Before downvoting the answer, please note that he actually asked to either "exclude" or "run only ec2 resource". And after all this time the exclude feature request is still open in the terraform repo.

Solution 2:

Adding to Julio's answer, you could target multiple resources in the following manner:

terraform init
terraform plan -target=resource_type1.resource_name1 -target=resource_type2.resource_name1
terraform apply -target=resource_type1.resource_name1 -target=resource_type2.resource_name1

Solution 3:

I would like to run it to exclude rds that takes the longest time

Terraform currently does not support exclusion of resources (aka. inverse targeting).

Issue #2253: "feature request: inverse targeting / exclude"

(Thanks for the link Julio Daniel Reyes.)