tftl is a simple command-line utility to quickly list Terraform/OpenTofu resource targets from specified .tf files. It can be easily integrated with Terraform/OpenTofu commands such as terraform plan and terraform apply, making lives easier for Terraform/OpenTofu automation.
If you're doing incremental applies/plans (e.g. terraform apply -target=...) frequently, this tool helps you extract resource names from Terraform/OpenTofu files and automatically generates the correct -target statements.
No manual copy-pasting resource names anymore!
Make sure you have Go installed, then run:
go install github.com/tiulpin/tftl@latestOr build from the source:
git clone https://github.com/tiulpin/tftl.git
cd tftl
go build -o tftl main.gotftl accepts multiple Terraform/OpenTofu files with the -f (or long form --file) flag.
Use the -s (or --string) flag if you want the resource names formatted as Terraform/OpenTofu command-line compatible arguments:
# run terraform plan quickly targeting resources from main.tf and other.tf
terraform plan $(tftl -f main.tf -f other.tf -s)
# apply specific file changes quickly
terraform apply $(tftl -f deployment.tf -s)