Mastering the Transition: Managing Existing Infrastructure in Terraform

Imagine this scenario: You have just been hired as a DevOps Engineer for a growing startup. Your first task is to bring their cloud infrastructure under version control using Terraform. You open the AWS console, and instead of an empty account, you see a sprawling landscape of VPCs, EC2 instances, S3 buckets, and RDS databases. These resources were all created manually by engineers over the last two years through the web console or various CLI scripts.