terraforming

There is a Terraforming github project which exports existing Amazon EC2 infrastructure and creates Terraform infrastructure tf code and tfstate. Terraforming github repo does not seem to be related to 1password. Terraforming github repo https://github.com/dtan4/terraforming http://terraforming.dtan4.net/

The state management system always struck me as very flawed design, and it's the reason I've not yet used Terraform. After all, it means that you have to start from scratch. If you any existing infrastructure — instances, load balancers, DNS, whatever — then anything you declare in Terraform will conflict, even if it's declared exactly identically. A workaround is to manually reverse-engineer your current state into a state file, or use a third-party tool like Terraforming [1], but it still breaks the second anyone (either accidentally or intentionally for whatever reasons) bypasses Terraform and touches the world directly, so Terraform simply isn't resilient by design. Surely one of the primary uses of a tool like this must be that if something is modified behind your back, you are secure in the knowledge that you can whip out Terraform

The biggest thing I've noticed is that terraform doesn't, out of the box, have any way of bringing in your existing resources, and sharing the [tfstate file] that has the current state of your world is its own challenge. The ec2 module of ansible has `count_tag`, and that was exactly what I wanted: "I want this many boxes that are identified by these tags." Played with an external tool call [terraforming] that creates a terraform setup from your existing boxes, but that, too, was way more than I wanted. Terraform is a very neat tool, but learning the AWS ecosystem _and_ this third-party tool that has its own very strong set of best practices was too much for me. If you're experienced, and especially if you're already using CloudFormation heavily, you can probably get a lot of mileage out of terraform. Doing a quick search to make sure I'm