During a terraform apply, a resource is successfully created but eventually fails during provisioning.
What happens to the resource?

Question

During a  terraform  apply, a resource is successfully created but eventually fails during provisioning. What happens to the resource?

Accepted Answer

The resource will be planned for destruction and recreation upon the next  terraform  apply

Answer

The failure of provisioner will be ignored and it will not cause a failure to  terraform  apply.

Answer

Terraform  will retry to provision again.

Answer

The resource will be automatically destroyed.

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