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# tofu

> Create and deploy infrastructure as code to cloud providers. Open-source fork of Terraform.
> More information: <https://opentofu.org/>.

- Initialize a new or existing OpenTofu configuration:

`tofu init`

- Verify that the configuration files are syntactically valid:

`tofu validate`

- Format configuration according to OpenTofu language style conventions:

`tofu fmt`

- Generate and show an execution plan:

`tofu plan`

- Build or change infrastructure:

`tofu apply`

- Destroy Tofu-managed infrastructure:

`tofu destroy`
