How to Delete All Resources Except One in Terraform

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How to Delete all Resources Except One in Terraform

If you need to delete all resources created by Terraform, except for a single, specific one, then you can do the following:

Step 1 – Get the current `state list`

terraform state list

Step 2 – Remove the exception resource

Remove the specific resource that you don’t want Terraform to track anymore.

terraform state rm <resource_to_be_removed>

Step 3 – Destroy the resources

terraform destroy