Platform & DevOps·Infrastructure described in a file
the tool prints exactly what it will create, change and destroy, and you read the destroy list before typing yes.
Plan and apply
Also calledplan, dry run, apply
The two-phase model of declarative infrastructure tooling: compute the difference between desired and recorded state and show it, then execute it. The plan is the single most valuable safety feature in the category, and reviewing it — particularly the replacements and deletions — is the actual control. A plan is only as good as its freshness, since anything that changes between planning and applying is not in it.