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page_title: "Command: untaint"
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description: |-
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The `terraform untaint` command tells Terraform that an object is functioning
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correctly, even though its creation failed or it was previously manually
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marked as degraded.
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# Command: untaint
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Terraform has a marker called "tainted" which it uses to track that an object
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might be damaged and so a future Terraform plan ought to replace it.
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Terraform automatically marks an object as "tainted" if an error occurs during
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a multi-step "create" action, because Terraform can't be sure that the object
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was left in a fully-functional state.
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You can also manually mark an object as "tainted" using the deprecated command
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[`terraform taint`](/cli/commands/taint), although we no longer recommend that
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workflow.
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If Terraform currently considers a particular object as tainted but you've
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determined that it's actually functioning correctly and need _not_ be replaced,
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you can use `terraform untaint` to remove the taint marker from that object.
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This command _will not_ modify any real remote objects, but will modify the
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state in order to remove the tainted status.
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If you remove the taint marker from an object but then later discover that it
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was degraded after all, you can create and apply a plan to replace it without
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first re-tainting the object, by using a command like the following:
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```
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terraform apply -replace="aws_instance.example[0]"
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```
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## Usage
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Usage: `terraform untaint [options] address`
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The `address` argument is a [resource address](/cli/state/resource-addressing)
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identifying a particular resource instance which is currently tainted.
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This command also accepts the following options:
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- `-allow-missing` - If specified, the command will succeed (exit code 0)
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even if the resource is missing. The command might still return an error
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for other situations, such as if there is a problem reading or writing
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the state.
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- `-lock=false` - Don't hold a state lock during the operation. This is
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dangerous if others might concurrently run commands against the same
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workspace.
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- `-lock-timeout=DURATION` - Unless locking is disabled with `-lock=false`,
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instructs Terraform to retry acquiring a lock for a period of time before
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returning an error. The duration syntax is a number followed by a time
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unit letter, such as "3s" for three seconds.
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- `-no-color` - Disables terminal formatting sequences in the output. Use this
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if you are running Terraform in a context where its output will be
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rendered by a system that cannot interpret terminal formatting.
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For configurations using the [Terraform Cloud CLI integration](/cli/cloud) or the [`remote` backend](/language/settings/backends/remote)
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only, `terraform untaint`
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also accepts the option
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[`-ignore-remote-version`](/language/settings/backends/remote#command-line-arguments).
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For configurations using
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[the `local` backend](/language/settings/backends/local) only,
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`terraform untaint` also accepts the legacy options
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[`-state`, `-state-out`, and `-backup`](/language/settings/backends/local#command-line-arguments).
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