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Somewhere in Australia (with Australian accents):

"Hey terraform just output a wall of text, it wants to know whether or not to proceed."

"That's what it does mate. Let it do its thing, she'll be right."

OK do people not inspect the output? I do every time just in case terraform goes off the deep end and decides on violence

I used to ~own all internal terraform usage at a very large software company. I could talk for hours about all the ways in which the "wall of text" is ineffective at scale. A surprisingly large amount of our technical investment in TF was around improving plan review.

I usually only look deeper if the summary (X created, Y updated, Z deleted) shows some unexpected numbers, especially if the number deleted is not 0. However, if nothing's being deleted, I usually assume it's safe enough.

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