hey all, I’m trying to adopt an existing AWS Cloud...
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glamorous-printer-14057
09/08/2019, 2:09 AMhey all, I’m trying to adopt an existing AWS CloudFormation Stack resource into Pulumi, along the lines of https://www.pulumi.com/blog/adopting-existing-cloud-resources-into-pulumi/ - I wasn’t sure what ID I should use. I started with the
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white-balloon-205
09/08/2019, 2:19 AM
I believe you can just use the
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tall-librarian-49374
09/08/2019, 2:29 AMIf you have any existing pulumi-defined resoures, you can run
pulumi stack export >> dump.txtidg
glamorous-printer-14057
09/08/2019, 2:56 AMyeah this particular resource (our Buildkite CloudFormation stack) was created manually, and I’m trying to get it under Pulumi management—however both the name of the existing stack and the
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tall-librarian-49374
09/08/2019, 2:59 AMInteresting... Create another temporary resource like this and check its id?
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glamorous-printer-14057
09/08/2019, 3:02 AMoh good idea i’ll try that out
glamorous-printer-14057
09/08/2019, 5:50 AMfor future reference, the issue here was that I wasn’t explicitly specifying a provider, and my existing CF stacks were in another AWS region 🤦♂️
that said, it’s kind of tricky to get the CF template YAML to perfectly match the existing, manually-created CF stacks, so I’m just going the route of recreating them in Pulumi and deprecating our previous CF stacks
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white-balloon-205
09/08/2019, 2:31 PM
t’s kind of tricky to get the CF template YAML to perfectly match the existing, manually-created CF stacksNote that
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