Hands-on: Try the Import Terraform Configuration tutorial.
Terraform can import existing infrastructure resources. This functionality lets you bring existing resources under Terraform management.
The terraform import
CLI command can only import resources into the state. Importing via the CLI does not generate configuration. If you want to generate the accompanying configuration for imported resources, use the import
block instead.
Before you run terraform import
you must manually write a resource
configuration block for the resource. The resource block describes where Terraform should map the imported object.
When you use Terraform on the command line with HCP Terraform, many commands like apply
run inside your HCP Terraform environment. However, the import
command runs locally, so it does not have access to information from HCP Terraform. To successfully perform an import, you may need to set local variables equivalent to any remote workspace variables in HCP Terraform.