Is there a recommended safe way to migrate a resource from o

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Is there a recommended safe way to migrate a resource from one provider to another assuming it s the same thing e g an aws provider Going from default to explicit provider for example

gorgeous-minister-41131 · Answer

Reimporting all of the resources seems cumbersome

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

Someone did have a nice answer for this a few months ago I ll see if I can find it

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

If you have lots of resources to change than you can export the stack search and replace and import it So long as you have both providers in the stack before exporting this isn t too hard though it is slightly scary

little-cartoon-10569 · Answer

Can t find the thread I m thinking of It may have rolled off the back of Slack I did find this discussion There s a workaround mentioned But afterwards Luke implies that is should just work

salmon-account-74572 · Answer

You could also try aliasing the provider which is very similar to the workaround mentioned in the issue this would in theory prevent any changes to the URNs of the resources

gorgeous-minister-41131 · Answer

ah yea

gorgeous-minister-41131 · Answer

Basically just target the new provider to create it and then find replace the URNs in the stack if I have to But I ll try the provider aliasing first

gorgeous-minister-41131 · Answer

so far Aliasing the provider seems to work Should only have to do this once so I m just copying my explicit provider obj so the ARN is the same and I ll just remove the ResourceOptions after