Resource Import in Terraform

Mastering Resource Import in Terraform

Imagine you have just joined a new engineering team. You are tasked with managing the company’s cloud infrastructure using Terraform. However, as you begin exploring the environment, you quickly realize a problem: the core infrastructure—the VPCs, the databases, and the S3 buckets—wasn't built with Terraform. It was created manually via the AWS Management Console or through various legacy scripts over the last two years.