[rf] remove plans

[ekristen]

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Overview

The concept is to add functionality similar to terraform, if you provide an output flag, and do not supply the no dry run, you can create a binary plan file that has all the resources to remove. You could then review this either by the initial output of the tool or by using a command like aws-nuke show <plan-file>. Once you review you can provide it to the run command along with no dry run and aws-nuke would skip doing another discovery phase.

Considerations

• Resources could change between plans
• We'd need to store resource information along with basic account information to ensure on subsequent plan the same account is being targeted

[sftim]

I wonder if some tool, maybe CLI compatible with aws-nuke, could borrow from OpenTofu, or Terraform, for details like:

• plan file serialization
• use of Terraform or OpenTofu plugins
• ability to abort a partial apply and still save progress

[sftim]

Being able to write an actual Terraform-compatible plan would allow using tools to visualise plans.