Lifecycle

In this lesson, we'll discuss the advanced Terraform resource "lifecycle" in detail.

Lifecycle

Every resource has a special block that can be set on it called the lifecycle block. This gives you, the creator, a bit more control as to the lifecycle of the resource. Let’s run through the options that you can configure using the lifecycle block.

create_before_destroy is a bool that you can set on a resource. For example:

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lifecycle {
create_before_destroy = true
}

Setting this property means that, as long as the ...

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