Document Terraform Triage Tip

[osterman]

what

• This environment variable isn't in the documentation, but can get you around some annoying errors when destroying resources.

export TF_WARN_OUTPUT_ERRORS=1

• Set TF_LOG=DEBUG to get more useful info

why

It converts the errors that would normally halt the destruction of resources from a module into warnings and therefore allows you to complete the destruction of a TF template

references

• https://www.terraform.io/docs/internals/debugging.html

[osterman]

@Jamie-BitFlight what state does it leave terraform in? Does terraform believe it destroyed them or it leaves them in the state file?