Terraform: Automatically import AWS account resources

Created on 1 Jul 2019 · 4Comments · Source: hashicorp/terraform

Hi just want to re-surface this request https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/4728

The last admin post was about 3 years ago, wonder if there has been any ETA of this feature?

(seems like not something super complicated, just need to enumerate things on AWS and then apply import? I feel that an incomplete import would also be very valuable, not all resources, just those with terraform import support.)

Thanks!

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voidcenter

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At the very least, having a command to list unmanaged resources so that they can be imported manually would be a huge win.

ben-turner on 7 Oct 2019

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dipietro-salvatore on 16 Jul 2019

Found this issue while looking for a similar solution. I think it would be great (and even increase terraform mindshare, sort of working as an infrastructure linter).

gtirloni on 23 Jul 2019

At the very least, having a command to list unmanaged resources so that they can be imported manually would be a huge win.

ben-turner on 7 Oct 2019

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Automatic import is likely a very large thing to implement and hope that it is possible some day, but in the meantime, I strongly agree that being able to simply get a list of resource ARNs that ARE NOT managed by terraform in an account would be a great start, since this could then be feed into other tools for deletion or importation.