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hi folks, this might be a dumb/already answered qu...
# general
s
hi folks, this might be a dumb/already answered questions, but is there a way to modify existing resources? For example, I have an AWS S3 bucket, I do a resource lookup with 
Bucket bucket = Bucket.Get("bucket", "my-bucket")
; but then how do I modify 
bucket
, for example, to enable Versioning? 
bucket.Versioning = ...
gives an error because 
Versioning
is read-only. Stuck on this for several hours now šŸ˜ž
p
you can import existing resource into pulumi project
s
thanks @prehistoric-activity-61023 but importing also only gives me a 
Bucket bucket
object, but how can I then modify this 
bucket
?
p
I donā€™t really get the question šŸ¤”
Once the resource is imported and itā€™s managed by pulumi, you should be able to configure it declaratively as any other resource.
m
Yes, you can modify the resource you've "gotten" but be aware of the drift you'll be causing
p
so if you modify the imported resource (by changing its definition in code), itā€™s gonna generate appropriate actions during next 
pulumi up
s
but how do I configure/modify the resource declaratively once I have it?
p
when you import the resource, you should get a code snippet to insert into your pulumi project
you should be able to simply modify it and pulumi will detect the difference between the imported state and definition in the code
s
I have that, but where do I change the resource? In the bucketArgs?
p
yeah
unless resource cannot be altered - there are some resources in the cloud that are immutable once created
not sure if thatā€™s the case for S3 versioning (Iā€™m more familiar with GCS)
s
I see... is 
import
the only way to modify an existing resouce then? Because 
Bucket.Get
doesn't allow a 
BucketArgs
parameter (it only has a similar 
BucketState
parameter, which only helps qualify the search)
p
try to do sth like this šŸ™‚ 1. Create an empty pulumi project. 2. Create a S3 bucket. 3. Try to import it into the given project. 4. Apply changes to the code (at this point, it should look just like a ā€œnormalā€ S3 bucket managed by pulumi) and see if that works for you
s
OK, I'll try that. thanks @prehistoric-activity-61023 and @millions-furniture-75402 for your help
p
Bucket.Get
allows you to GET some information about an existing resource (so you can use that in other resources managed by pulumi). However, it does NOT ADD IT TO THE STATE so the resource is not managed by pulumi and because of that, it cannot be altered. 
import
DOES ADD TO THE STATE so the resource becomes pulumi-managed. That means if you donā€™t alter your code appropriately (based on the code snippet 
pulumi import
should print for you), pulumi will think you want to delete that resource (it goes like this: ā€œitā€™s present in the state, itā€™s not defined in code => remove it from the cloud so code==state)
m
I think you want to do something like this (untested):
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const myBucketModifications = new aws.s3.Bucket(`${appName}-with-mods`, {
  bucket: aws.s3.Bucket.get("my-bucket", "my-bucket-id").bucket,
  serverSideEncryptionConfiguration: {
    rule: {
      applyServerSideEncryptionByDefault: {
        sseAlgorithm: "AES256",
      },
    },
  },
});
I guess we should have asked you what your scenario is. Was this bucket created by another process, or Pulumi?
p
^ thatā€™s a good question
In case youā€™d like to see how it should look like in case of importing some already existing cloud resource not managed by pulumi:
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āÆ pulumi -s <REDACTED> import gcp:storage/bucket:Bucket my-python-var-name example-pulumi-bucket
...

Please copy the following code into your Pulumi application. Not doing so
will cause Pulumi to report that an update will happen on the next update command.

Please note that the imported resources are marked as protected. To destroy them
you will need to remove the `protect` option and run `pulumi update` *before*
the destroy will take effect.

import pulumi
import pulumi_gcp as gcp

my_python_var_name = gcp.storage.Bucket("my-python-var-name",
    force_destroy=False,
    location="US",
    name="example-pulumi-bucket",
    storage_class="STANDARD",
    opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(protect=True))
as you can see, at the end thereā€™s a python snippet I should add to my code to match the (already) modified state. I added this snippet to my 
main.py
and when I run 
pulumi up
, it says thereā€™s nothing to change. Now, when I modify it like this:
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my_python_var_name = gcp.storage.Bucket("my-python-var-name",
    force_destroy=False,
    location="US",
    name="example-pulumi-bucket",
    storage_class="STANDARD",
=>  versioning=gcp.storage.BucketVersioningArgs(enabled=True),
    opts=pulumi.ResourceOptions(protect=True))
it wants to alter my bucket:
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Type                   Name                    Plan       Info
     pulumi:pulumi:Stack    <REDACTED>             
 ~   ā””ā”€ gcp:storage:Bucket  my-python-var-name      update     [diff: +versioning]
 
Resources:
    ~ 1 to update
    10 unchanged
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