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Hi folks, new to Pulumi and enjoying it so far, but wanted to ask one thing. Say I try to create an existing resource (and ofc it fails). If the resource already exists, how can I register it to state?

You can either use the `import` argument or `pulumi import`. Let me find you some documentation :slightly_smiling_face:

Here you go: <https://www.pulumi.com/docs/guides/adopting/import/>

So as far as I understand the resource has to defined explicitly, there is no option to import resource when you get an existing resource error.

With that command the resource is imported to your stack, and Pulumi gives you the code for that resource (which you typically just copy)