Terraform: does taint support TF modules?

[ketzacoatl]

I have in a main.tf, an instance of a module:

module "cleaders" {
    source = "../leaders"
    ...
}

And I want to _taint_ that module, so I run tf taint:

ᐅ tf taint module.cleaders
The module root has no resources. There is nothing to taint.

I see talk of which resource to target in a module in taint's docs https://terraform.io/docs/commands/taint.html, but I am unable to figure out how to taint a module (from root) so that the entire module is rm'd on the next apply.

[arubis]

You can taint resources within modules:

terraform taint -module=cleaders resource.designator

Ie. I often use terraform taint -module=salt_master aws_instance.salt_master to reprovision my configuration management servers.

Granted, this is different from tainting the entire module; I'm not sure how to go about that except for tainting all resources.

[ketzacoatl]

thanks @arubis! I have used your confirmation to update the docs a tiny bit.

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