Actions

Tip

Action support is in technical preview and offered without compatibility promises until Terraform 1.14 is generally available.

Actions are an abstraction that allow providers to expose side-effects that interact with remote systems. Practitioners can use actions to express workflows that don't strictly fit into typical CRUD resource management, such as disaster recovery or ad-hoc maintenance. Actions can be invoked directly with the Terraform CLI or with a trigger in a plan/apply workflow.

Actions are currently not able to modify resource state, but future work is planned to support this.

Implementation

Learn about how to implement code for an action in the framework.