Is there a recommended/safe-way to migrate a resou...
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gorgeous-minister-41131
03/27/2023, 10:36 PMIs 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
03/27/2023, 10:37 PMReimporting all of the resources seems cumbersome...
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little-cartoon-10569
03/27/2023, 10:49 PMSomeone did have a nice answer for this a few months ago.. I'll see if I can find it.
little-cartoon-10569
03/27/2023, 10:50 PMIf 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
03/27/2023, 10:57 PMCan't find the thread I'm thinking of. It may have rolled off the back of Slack.
I did find this discussion: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/8959
There's a workaround mentioned: https://github.com/pulumi/pulumi/issues/8959#issuecomment-1347699976
But afterwards, Luke implies that is should just work?
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salmon-account-74572
03/27/2023, 11:13 PMYou 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.
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gorgeous-minister-41131
03/28/2023, 12:05 AMah yea.
gorgeous-minister-41131
03/28/2023, 12:05 AMBasically 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
03/28/2023, 12:13 AMso 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.