Interrupted terraform apply, now cannot destroy or apply

Question

So I have an application that runs terraform apply in a directory, then can also run terraform destroy. I was testing the application, and I accidentally interrupted the processes while running apply

Now it seems to be stuck with a partially created instance, where it recognizes the name of my instance I was creating/destroying and when I try to apply it says that an instance of that name already exists. But then destroy says there is nothing to destroy. So I can't do either. Is there anyway to unsnarl this?

Answer 1

you can run the below to view all current resources still live from the project directory:

$ terraform state list

to destroy each resource run the below on each individual resource:

$ terraform destroy --target=resource.name

could write a script to loop through the 'terraform state list' output if there is a lot.

Answer 2

I'm afraid that the only option is by doing:

1. execute terraform state rm RESOURCE example: terraform state rm aws_ebs_volume.volume.

2. Manually remove the resource from your cloud provider.