mr_C

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1. 1.▲
   by mr_C 5y ago

   Not true, just set state to absent and run your play again.
2. 2.▲
   by mr_C 5y ago

   I came up with trivial examples because no one forgets about non-trivial resources. In my opinion, if you decrease some instance count from 18 to 3, you'd rather waste 1 minute deleting 15 instances than dealing with all the problems a
3. 3.▲
   by mr_C 5y ago

   Using ec2_instance_info to check if the instance exists filtering by name (eg: selectattr('tags.Name', 'defined') | selectattr('tags.Name', 'equalto', server_name) ) and then standard ec2_instance mod
4. 4.▲
   by mr_C 5y ago

   Who cares if there is a dangling dns records somewhere or an extra allocated floating ip? In practice you could just set state:absent to whatever you are trying to remove or just remove it manually, the latter is most of the time faster tha
5. 5.▲
   by mr_C 5y ago

   Maybe an unpopular opinion but what you just described as "naive" is arguably a better solution than Terraform's overengineering. I use Ansible to manage multiple clouds (Openstack, AWS...etc) using a mix of custom modules an