Discussion on: Importing Existing Infrastructure to Terraform

[Ankur Sinha]

how to use imported terraform.tfstate file in Azure DevOps setup ?

I mean how we can connect to the imported terraform.tfstate file in a Azure DevOps setup after migrating/uploading terraform.tfstate to Azure Storage ?

Main purpose is to import the existing resources to terraform.tfstate and then use the imported terraform.tfstate file in Azure DevOps instead of creating a new terraform.tfstate through Azure DevOps

[Vivekanand Rapaka]

The suggested way is to keep the tfstate file in a storage account rather than in Azure DevOps and have it configured as remote backend..please see my other post on using terraform with Azure devops.

Hope this helps.

[Ankur Sinha]

So If I import state file and store it in Azure Storage and give path to this state file in the Azure DevOps , will it create a new state file or pick this one ?

[Vivekanand Rapaka]

You should be giving the configuring location of the tfstate file in your terraform script rather than Azure DevOps as below and Configure Azure DevOps Pipelines to run:

terraform {
backend "azurerm" {
resource_group_name = "StorageAccount-ResourceGroup"
storage_account_name = "abcd1234"
container_name = "tfstate"
key = "prod.terraform.tfstate"
}
}