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< orange airplane 70350> < able tomato 34262> Great discussion on importing existing resources Importing existing resource state is indeed a work in progress for us We have a variety of GitHub issues tracking conversion tools more broadly but I just created one to track the idea of a `pulumi import` command If you want to do it by hand today you can but it s very much a manual process along the lines of what < able tomato 34262> suggests `pulumi stack export` your checkpoint state add the empty resources to it `pulumi stack import` it and then run `pulumi refresh` to read in all the state I realize this is cumbersome and if you d like help we re happy to spend some time with you `pulumi import` would automate this process

stocky-spoon-28903 · Answer

Does the Terraform bridge have import support

stocky-spoon-28903 · Answer

There are specific nasty cases for AWS in particular but also for other things where to do a meaningful import you have to map from the user facing ID for more things e g if you want route table rules in addition to the route table the TF provider protocol has support for this built in which applies to most resources already

big-piano-35669 · Answer

It does not yet but I agree with you completely that this is the way to go cc < microscopic florist 22719> as I know he has done some thinking here

stocky-spoon-28903 · Answer

+1 Feel free to throw any concerns questions about that this way I either implemented or reviewed the majority of the import logic for Terraform originally

big-piano-35669 · Answer

Sweet thank you so much