A developer accidentally launched a VM (virtual machine) outside of the Terraform workflow and ended up with two servers with the same name. They don't know which VM Terraform manages but do have a list of all active VM IDs.
Which of the following methods could you use to discover which instance Terraform manages?

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A developer accidentally launched a VM (virtual machine) outside of the Terraform workflow and ended up with two servers with the same name. They don't know which VM Terraform manages but do have a list of all active VM IDs.

Which of the following methods could you use to discover which instance Terraform manages?

Jimmy Wasson · Accepted Answer

Run terraform state list to find the names of all VMs, then run terraform state show for each of them to find which VM ID Terraform manages

Jimmy Wasson · Answer

Update the code to include outputs for the ID of all VMs, then run terraform plan to view the outputs

Jimmy Wasson · Answer

Run terraform taint/code on all the VMs to recreate them

Jimmy Wasson · Answer

Use terraform refresh/code to find out which IDs are already part of state

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