A proposal for a better Terraform: terraform plan -light. Faster plan times without breaking up state.

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A proposed solution to reduce the duration of Terraform plans by targeting only the resources modified in code with the 'terraform plan -light' flag.

terraform plan -light

<p>You can treat each resource or set of resources as microservices, so your plan won’t last as long.</p>


<p>What if the resources are changed externally to terraform state? Will the light plan consider them along with the code changes?</p>
