How to use Terraform import? - Part 22

In Terraform, you need to import an existing resource into your Terraform configuration so that you can manage it with Terraform. This is useful when you have an existing resource that you did not create with Terraform, but you want to manage its lifecycle with Terraform.

To import a resource, you use the terraform import command and specify the resource type, the name of the resource, and the ID of the resource. For example, if you wanted to import an Amazon S3 bucket into your Terraform configuration, you would use a command like this:

This would import the S3 bucket with the name my-bucket-name into your Terraform configuration and create an aws_s3_bucket resource with the name my_bucket. You can then manage the bucket with Terraform, including modifying its properties and destroying it when it is no longer needed.

Importing resources can be useful when you want to start using Terraform to manage existing infrastructure that was not created with Terraform, or when you have taken over management of an infrastructure that was previously managed by someone else

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01:16 - Import AWS EC2 instnace
09:15 - Import AWS S3 bucket

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[aniruddhatope]

Hey Rahul,
Thanks for this awesome tutorial, I had interview yesterday on terraform and got selected today by following ur tutorials. Many thanks.

[singhbrozz]

The way you are explaining any skill set , it's awesome . I learned terraform in a week from your youtube channel.

[sabahb]

Thanks Rahul, awesome tutorial. I got access to 2 udemy courses for terraform but none of them are this lucid & clear. This shud be called - Terraform Made Easy by Rahul Wagh :D

[AnimeshTiwari]

Thanks mate . It became very simple after you explain.
Question : If I modify any imported resources using the terraform, will it work in real infra also ?

[sanyk]

Great explanation with example ❤.Though I have used the terraform import earlier it clears my concept a bit more. Btw: I was expecting when I will run terraform import it will automatically reconstruct my resources also 😂

[thamizharasanrp]

@Rahul terraform import command will be challenging to use in complex arch rite . Thanks for the video. Keep

[sabahb]

in terraform 1.5, import block is newly added which makes it easier with 'id' & 'to'. Alhamdullilah :)

[-XSX-]

Terraform import is not very widely covered topic, thanks for sharing this session.
Recently I was searching Amazon for the best book that I can purchase for Ansible, and I was looking for someone, who can guide me on this, i just can not unnoticed the Ansible book you have on shelf.

I have, Ansible for DevOps by Jeff Geerling, Ansible Playbook Essential by Gourav Shah and Mastering Ansible by Jesse Keating to choose from.
I work on servers and used Ansible for Config Management and services orchestration, which book should I go for, is Ansible for DevOps covers all necessary topics ? Please

[purvakmistry]

Can we import entire S3 resources to terraform state in one go? or do we need to do one by one s3 buckets import?

[prmdheeraj]

After import which file gets updated ? Statefile ?

[vinayKP-yg]

Error: resource address "aws_instance.ec2_example" does not exist in the configuration.

Before importing this resource, please create its configuration in the root module. For example:

resource "aws_instance" "ec2_example" {
# (resource arguments)

Getting this error while importing, what is the root module.

[funvideo]

Hi Rahul,

I have below requirnment,
I have enabled Cross account setting on my main monitoring account and now i want to run the CFT to enable Cross account Cross region setting on all other AWS account to share there metric data with monitoring account. For that we need to built the terraform code.. so will you please help with any link or document for the same.

Regards
Rajiv

[leamon]

Thanks for the video. Could you also talk about "config-driven" import in Terraform?

[ansitakumari]

Hey,

There is person A, who created few resources through terraform nd all those resources have been recorded in statefile. Now this person A, made some resources manually and did not use terraform, so all those manually created resources have not been recorded in statefile.

Now, person B comes, he doesn't know what all resources have been manually added and now his job is to import all those manually added resources to the terraform in statefile.

So, my question is - is there any way that person B can figure out what all resources have been changed manually??

[AmiteshRaikwar]

I am importing existing env in my state file but when I run it it recreate instances again which were already running or were in off state

[yuvrajjambhle]

Can we delete existing aws resource using terraform, which is created manually? I asking for secrets from aws secret manager

[hameedaliali]

Thanks for posting interesting sessions on Terraforms.. Can you post some demos of using Templates for spinning up AWS instances or GCP instances. I am basically looking to see how we can define an Test Environment that consists of some components as Template and use this template to instantiate the actual Test

[gauravpande]

Hi, how do we know what all necessary attributes needs to kept in the resources after importing?

[shashiprakash]

you should have also show tfstate file before and after import

[AmiteshRaikwar]

Difference between terraform pull & import?