Project Settings - Policies
Deployment Controls
Skipping the Apply Step
If you mark “Skip apply when plan has no changes”, under “Project Settings” -> “Policies” tab, the apply step will be skipped completely when there are no pending resource changes in the terraform plan.
This is especially useful for automated deploys, in case you want to have your continuous deployment / scheduled environments require user approval to apply. In such a case, checking this box will only require user approval for plans that have actual resource changes in them.