How to import a resource (such as on AWS or Datadog) into a workspace.

Here we import a Datadog synthetic. See DD provider section the Terraform docs.

  • main.tf 
      resource "datadog_synthetics_test" "this" {}
  • versions.tf 
      terraform {
    required_version = ">= 0.13"

    required_providers {
      datadog = {
        source  = "DataDog/datadog"
        version = "2.13.0"
      }
    }
  }

Now we import a Datadog synthetic by its ID.

$ terraform init
$ terraform workspace select foo || terraform workspace new foo
$ terraform import datadog_synthetics_test.this abc-def-123

Note that if you try terraform plan, it maybe fail because of lack of required parameters. So put the required ones. Even if your parameters are wrong, at least you can import the remote resource into state. Then run a plan to see what is on the remote resource and use that diff to build your TF code.

  • main.tf 
      resource "datadog_synthetics_test" "this" {
    type      = var.check_type
    subtype   = var.sub_type
    name      = var.name
    # ...
  }

Then run plan again.