Challenge - Import and Refactor Existing Infrastructure with Terraform

Terraform can adopt resources that were created outside it, then keep those resources running while you reshape the configuration. Import brings live Azure infrastructure into state. A moved block later relocates a resource address, for example into a module, without destroying the real resource.

You will import a pre-existing storage account, virtual network, and subnet, write configuration that produces a zero-change plan, then extract the storage account into a local module.

By completing this Intermediate challenge, you will be able to:

• Import existing Azure resources into Terraform state without recreating them
• Write configuration that matches live infrastructure so a plan reports no changes
• Move a resource into a local module without changing the deployed storage account

Prerequisites

• Terraform HCL, state, and CLI (init, plan, apply, state)
• Azure CLI resource inspection

Recommended Lab: Introduction to Azure Terraform