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A tool to bring your existing Azure resources under the management of Terraform.

Azure Export for Terraform exports supported resources into Terraform state and generate the corresponding Terraform configuration. Both the Terraform state and configuration are expected to be consistent with the resources' remote state, i.e.,terraform plan shows no diff. The user then is able to use Terraform to manage these resources.

It supports both theTerraform AzureRM provider and theTerraform AzAPI provider.

The Terraform configurations generated byaztfexport are not meant to be comprehensive and do not ensure that the infrastructure can be fully reproduced from said generated configurations. For details, please seelimitations).

Precompiled binaries and Window MSI are available atReleases.

go install github.com/Azure/aztfexport@latest

winget install aztfexport

brew install aztfexport

Supported versions:

• RHEL 8 (amd64, arm64)
• RHEL 9 (amd64, arm64)

1. Import the Microsoft repository key:

   rpm --import https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc

2. Addpackages-microsoft-com-prod repository:

   ver=8 # or 9dnf install -y https://packages.microsoft.com/config/rhel/${ver}/packages-microsoft-prod.rpm

3. Install:

   dnf install aztfexport

Supported versions:

• Ubuntu 20.04 (amd64, arm64)
• Ubuntu 22.04 (amd64, arm64)

1. Import the Microsoft repository key:

   curl -sSL https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/microsoft.asc

2. Addpackages-microsoft-com-prod repository:

   ver=20.04 # or 22.04apt-add-repository https://packages.microsoft.com/ubuntu/${ver}/prod

3. Install:

   apt-get install aztfexport

yay -S aztfexport

aztfexport requires aterraform executable installed in the$PATH with version>= v0.12.

aztfexport leveragesaztft to identify the Terraform resource type corresponding to an Azure resource ID. Then it runsterraform import under the hood to import each resource. Afterwards, it runstfadd to generate the Terraform HCL code for each imported resource.

Read theAzure Export documentation which covers scenarios and usage.

aztfexport will create a configuration file at$HOME/.aztfexport/config.json. This file is aim to be managed by commandaztfexport config [subcommand], which includes following subcommands:

• get: Get a config item
• set: Set a config item
• show: Show the full configuration

Currently, the following config items are supported:

• installation_id: A UUID created on first run. If there is Azure CLI or Azure Powershell installed on the current machine, the UUID will be the same value among these tools. Otherwise, a new one will be created. This is used as an identifier in the telemetry trace.
• telemetry_enabled: Enables telemetry. We use telemetry to identify issues and areas for improvement, in order to optimize this tool for better performance, reliability, and user experience. If you wish to disable our telemetry, set this to false.

Visitthis page on the Azure Export for Terraform documentation that discusses the currently known limitations of the tool.

• The aztfexport Github Page: Everything about aztfexport, including comparisons with other existing import solutions.
• aztft: A Go program and library for identifying the correct Terraform AzureRM provider resource type on the Azure resource id.
• tfadd: A Go program and library for generating Terraform configuration from Terraform state.