{"id":2792,"date":"2023-07-17T13:17:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T12:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easydeploy.io\/blog\/?p=2792"},"modified":"2024-04-09T11:30:20","modified_gmt":"2024-04-09T10:30:20","slug":"import-existing-resources-under-terraform-configuration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easydeploy.io\/blog\/import-existing-resources-under-terraform-configuration\/","title":{"rendered":"How to import existing resources under Terraform without writing Terraform configuration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before Terraform version 1.5<\/strong>, if you want to import existing resources<\/strong> into a Terraform configuration, you must write a configuration for the resources you want to import. If you haven’t created any resource block for the resources, you cannot import the resources under Terraform cloud<\/strong>. you can also use Terraform Import<\/strong> but the configuration Is safer.<\/p>\n

Firstly you have to write a Terraform configuration for the particular resource that you want to import and execute the import command with the resource id. Then you have to run terraform plan<\/em><\/strong> command to compare the configuration changes of the resource from the cloud provider to your terraform configuration file<\/strong>. This is like writing a Terraform configuration script<\/strong> from the beginning and If you want to import an infrastructure that has a lot of combined resources, it took more time and confusion to manually import and write Terraform configurations for them.<\/p>\n

But recently Hashicorp released Terraform version 1.5<\/strong> and it has a major update for the import concept. They have introduced a new resource block called import<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This how-to is also published on our youtube channel. Please find the video here<\/p>\n