Question

A cloud engineer maintains production infrastructure using an infrastructure-as-code tool. Before merging a large refactor of network modules, the team wants to see exactly which resources will be created, modified, or destroyed—without making any actual changes to the live environment. Which step should the engineer run to obtain this preview?

Accepted Answer

Generate an execution plan (dry run) that compares the desired configuration against current state and outputs the proposed changes

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Apply the configuration directly to a production workspace and roll back if the output is unexpected

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Manually inspect the cloud console to compare each resource against the code repository

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Delete the existing state file so the tool rebuilds all resources from scratch