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HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate Terraform Associate (004) · Domain 7: Maintain infrastructure with Terraform

Importing existing infrastructure with `import` blocks and generating configuration with `terraform plan -generate-config-out`

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Last reviewed September 25, 2026 · Leer en español

Many organizations adopt Terraform after they already have infrastructure built by hand or by other tools. Importing brings those existing objects under Terraform management by recording them in state and matching them to resource blocks, without recreating anything. Since Terraform 1.5, the recommended way is the declarative import block.

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