Interactive REPL for testing expressions and inspecting values from state.
Section: Formatting and Validation
Open Terraform console
bash
bash
terraform consoleExplanation
Interactive REPL for testing expressions and inspecting values from state.
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Format recursively
Format Terraform files in current directory and subdirectories.
Validate configuration
Check whether configuration is syntactically valid and internally consistent.
Validate and return JSON
Emit machine-readable validation output, useful in CI.
Run Terraform tests
Execute Terraform test files in the tests directory or specified test directory.
Show Terraform version
Print the installed Terraform CLI version and provider versions in use.