forge-lang-terraform

A plan-before-apply workflow in Terraform enforces pre-flight checks like init, validate, and fmt before generating a plan for explicit review. This guarantees infrastructure changes are audited and only applied after approval.

Terraform pre-flight validations run automated init, fmt, and validate steps to catch misconfigurations early. By consolidating these checks, you ensure code formatting and syntax issues are resolved before generating an execution plan.

Terraform plan workflows do not strictly require tflint but integrate it optionally to uphold coding standards. The core requirement is the Terraform CLI, which handles the mandatory init, plan, and apply lifecycle steps.

Generating a Terraform plan for review executes a plan generation step after validation checks pass. The resulting tfplan is presented for explicit user approval, ensuring no unaudited infrastructure changes are applied automatically.

Yes, tflint integrates with Terraform workflows to provide linting and governance checks before planning. Running tflint alongside standard validate checks catches provider misconfigurations and upholds coding standards early.