Import Azure applications into Terraform

26th May 2025

Speaking at the Adelaide Azure User Group about importing legacy Azure apps into Terraform

I’m looking forward to presenting at the Adelaide Azure User Group next month about the process of importing a ‘brownfield’ Azure application into Terraform.

Terraform is a popular infrastructure as code tool. Starting off from scratch with Terraform is pretty straightforward. But what if you’ve already got your cloud infrastructure deployed but you didn’t use Terraform, Bicep or another Infrastructure as Code tool? Maybe you just created resources in the Portal directly, or used the Azure CLI or PowerShell.

This talk steps through this scenario, demonstrating how to use tools to generate Terraform, common issues to watch out for, and hwo to make it work across multiple environments.