Importing and modifying existing Azure resources

[akata72]

Hi,

We have a large migration project where we are using tools like Azure Migrate to migrate resources into Azure.
Azure Migrate will move and provision resources (like nics, vms and disks) outside any IaC scope.

However we would like to import/reference or somehow hook up these resources in our bicep file to start managing these through code (i.e adding a new disk). So we are looking for something similar to terraform import feature.

[anthony-c-martin]

Out of interest, are you able to use the ARM Export Template functionality today to fetch an ARM Template for these resources?

If so, I believe that once #402 has been implemented, you should be able to fetch a template containing these resources from Azure and convert to .bicep.

[akata72]

Hi, thanks for the response. It would be possible to export the resources to an ARM template and eventually convert to bicep, but I was hoping for a more «programmatic» way of achieving this. Not sure exactly what I am looking for though. 😀

[alex-frankel]

In theory, we could add a command like:

bicep export -f main.bicep --resource-id "path/to/resource"

Which could do the export, convert it to bicep and add it to the file of your choosing (in this case main.bicep). That could be pretty cool. Though we want to be careful not to recreate functionality, so it may make more sense to add it to the az group export. Definitely an interesting idea.

[chudytom]

Is there any progress on this idea?
It would work like a better version of Terraform Import https://www.terraform.io/docs/cli/import/index.html
Because Terraform only imports resources to the state, does not create the actual configuration in code

[pdahlgren]

Use Bicep Decompile: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-resource-manager/bicep/decompile?tabs=azure-cli