Why terraform is ignoring a manually created s3 bucket

Question

Hi Guys,

I have created some s3 buckets manually in AWS. But when I run the terraform command, it is not able to find the bucket. It is showing the below output.

No changes. Infrastructure is up-to-date.
This means that Terraform did not detect any differences between your
configuration and real physical resources that exist. As a result, no
actions need to be performed.

Answer 1

Hi@akhtar,

Terraform is a declarative language, you can define what resources you want and it will create and manage them for you. It can only manage resources it knows about within the state. To allow terraform to manage resources created manually, you can import them into the state file.