Importing Azure resources to Terraform

Overview

If you want to bring existing resources into Terraform control, you need to make changes in both the Terraform plan, and the matching state.

I have tried two approaches for doing this:

• Manual import of Azure Resources to Terraform
• Using aztfy

Adding uncontrolled resources to existing plan

I have had a couple of projects where the state was in Terraform Cloud, and I needed to bring into the plan some uncontrolled, pre-existing resources in Azure. The workaround approach I have got to so far for this is:

• use aztfy to import the uncontrolled resources into an empty directory
• manually copy the plan files into the project folder, adjusting resource names as required
• for each added resource use the manual approach to import the resource into the remote state

See also

Other tools include:

• GoogleCloudPlatform/terraformer - multi-cloud
• cycloidio/terracognita (multi-cloud)