github.com/hugorut/terraform@v1.1.3/website/docs/language/state/import.mdx (about) 1 --- 2 page_title: 'State: Import Existing Resources' 3 description: >- 4 Terraform stores state which caches the known state of the world the last time 5 Terraform ran. 6 --- 7 8 # Import Existing Resources 9 10 Terraform is able to import existing infrastructure. This allows you take 11 resources you've created by some other means and bring it under Terraform management. 12 13 To learn more about this, please visit the 14 [pages dedicated to import](/cli/import).