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Lab 25: Destroying All Terraform Resources

1. Go to your Terraform project folder (where main.tf is located):

cd ~/swarm-terraform

1. Initialize (only needed if not already initialized):

terraform init

1. Run destroy with confirmation prompt:

terraform destroy

Terraform will show you a plan of what will be deleted and ask:

Do you really want to destroy all resources?  Enter a value: yes

1. To skip the confirmation prompt (use with care):

terraform destroy -auto-approve

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✅ This will remove:

• EC2 instances (manager + workers)
• Security groups
• VPC, subnets, route tables, internet gateway
• Key pair (if created by Terraform)

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⚠️ Important for students:

• Always run terraform destroy from the same folder where you ran terraform apply (so it uses the same terraform.tfstate).
• Double-check the AWS Console afterwards to ensure no stray resources (like EBS volumes or elastic IPs) remain.

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