Add support for importing existing resources into terraform state

[newtondev]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
What if your resource already exists and you just want to import it's state and have it be managed by terranetes? Future updates to the Kubernetes resource would then continue to apply and manage the state.

Describe the solution you'd like
For example when using terraform from the command line you tend to import state like:

terraform import aws_iam_role.role_name my_role

This is a bit of an easy example, but what if the resource you want to import was created by legacy tooling and you wanted to migrate to using terranetes.

The documentation does not indicate that this kind of feature is possible.

Your help would be greatly appreciated on understanding whether this is possible. Thanks

[gambol99]

Hi @newtondev …

So terranetes doesn’t provide a route to do this natively this at present i’m afriad. The only way I could see it happening may be quite fiddly i.e

a) Take the module your about to run terraform import <resource> to retrieve the statefile
b) Create a resource in terraform representing the expected outcome (as the terraform state file for the a resource is stored in the terraform-system/UUID
c) Push the terraform state into the kubernetes secret