The use of IaC requires attention in some cases. Indeed, when the IaC is integrated into a CI/CD pipeline, resources containing important data can be automatically deleted. This can be done either by changing a property of a Terraform resource, which requires the deletion and recreation of this resource, or by executing the terraform destroy command. Fortunately, Terraform includes a configuration in its language that prevents the destruction of sensitive resources.
In this recipe, we will see how to prevent the destruction of resources that are managed in a Terraform configuration.
