allow `-target` to accept globs

[tamsky]

Suppose one declares several concurrent environments in a single tf config.

To limit cli actions to a single environment at a time, it would be convenient if a way existed, via -target to glob-match modules, module_paths, resource_types and resource_names:

terraform apply -target=aws*.staging* # target aws* resource_types

or similarly, for all modules:

terraform apply -target=*.*.staging* # target all modules and resource_types

or similarly, for all module_paths:

terraform apply -target=**.staging* # star star = target all modules and submodules

[scalp42]

👍 would love to be able to use as opposed to writing CLIs to wrap Terraform

[KZachariassen]

Hi,

Any plans to fix this?

[elocnatsirt]

Was just wondering if this is possible. Would be a very useful feature!

[joshmullis]

There are other requests I've seen for "exclude" logic, so it may be useful to have this use regex instead of glob to take care of both requests.

[mario21ic]

Where is the issue for "exclude" logic? that it'll resolve me many problems 👍, maybe like target:
$ terraform plan -exclude=mymodule.resource_not_important

[kwent]

Would love this feature as well !

[pkieszcz]

Just hit it today... Would love this feature times 1000s

[ryandeivert]

++ This feature would be excellent to have

[ljsommer]

Wow this is a very old request for a very useful feature.
Great idea, our use case would be to use target to specify the creation of template resources to create fully populated python files for Lambdas which have interpolated their vars from terraform so that we can do local unit and lint testing before interacting with the AWS API.

[ezalejski]

I am also voting for this feature...

[idjaw]

Would it be correct to relate with Issue #2253

The feature request is for a different option parameter, but the nature of the feature to have an "exclude" pattern instead of just "apply" could be interesting.

Considering they are both trying to achieve somewhat similar results. By supporting also the exclude and this pattern feature, it would make it that much more flexible and powerful.