Maybe not Python specific but I ve got a question about impo

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Maybe not Python specific but I ve got a question about importing a resource into the state My particular problem is I have two AWS accounts and my code uses a provider to configure resources in the second account I cannot delete and recreate them easily thus I have to import these but how do I import resources located in a second account

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

you can specify the provider while importing the resources

sticky-bear-14421 · Answer

Do you have an example for this

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

do you already have a provider defined in the state for the second account

sticky-bear-14421 · Answer

I thought yes but my pulumi run said it will create it

sticky-bear-14421 · Answer

But I can create a resource and remove it so the provider will be persisted in the state

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

Create it then You will need an existing provider instance if you want to easily import the resource

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

you can create the provider itself you don t have to create any resources linked to it

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

Once you have a configured provider in the state get its URN you can find it using e g `pulumi stack show urns` Once you have it use ` provider` flag available in `pulumi import` command

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

Example ```pulumi import provider my provider name= lt PROVIDER gt github index repository Repository just a test just a test```

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

`my provider name` can be anything AFAIK it will just be used in generate code template you can reuse the variable name you used for provider so the snippet will be adjusted to it out of the box

prehistoric-activity-61023 · Answer

make sure you provide `PROVIDER` within single quotes URNs usually contain dollar signs and it breaks the shell substitution

sticky-bear-14421 · Answer

Ok thanks

sticky-bear-14421 · Answer

Will give it a try

sticky-bear-14421 · Answer

Will report later got pulled into a meeting

sticky-bear-14421 · Answer

< prehistoric activity 61023> And of course I forgot to report back it did work grin