How can I import a Resource of a Project on Digitalocean?

[fuadnafiz98]

I am trying to import a droplet via terraform import but as the droplet is inside a project. I cannot import it. I also looked into the docs and found that the importing of resources of a project is not supported. https://registry.terraform.io/providers/digitalocean/digitalocean/latest/docs/resources/project_resources

Any Idea how I can retrieve the information of a resource even if its inside a project not made by terraform?

[andrewsomething]

Droplets inside a project not created by Terraform should be able to be imported without issue. Though if the Droplet is recreated it will be placed in the default project unless you also use the digitalocean_project_resources resource.

The digitalocean_project_resources resource does not need to manage every resource in the project. It can be used to manage a subset of them. So after importing the Droplet, you could just add something like:

resource "digitalocean_project_resources" "foo" {
  project = "aaa-bbb-ccc"
  resources = [
    digitalocean_droplet.foo.urn
  ]
}

resource "digitalocean_droplet" "foo" {
  name   = "foo"
  image  = "123456"
  region = "nyc3"
  size   = "s-1vcpu-1gb"
  monitoring = true
}

This will "create" a new digitalocean_project_resources resource, but as the Droplet is already in the project there is no functional change.

[fuadnafiz98]

Thank you for the comment.

But I am not been able to import the droplet too.

When I try to import it via terraform import, it doesn’t show anything on the output.

For instance, I can able to import a project and it shows the terraform state of the project, but I couldn’t able to done the same for droplets.

My assumptions was that due to the existence of the droplet is inside a project, it couldn’t able to find it.

[andrewsomething]

Can you share what you are seeing when you attempt to import the Droplet?

[fuadnafiz98]

Do you want the info with trace logs?

It shows that the resource has imported successfully, but nothing shows on the state. The output is empty.

[fuadnafiz98]

Hi,
Can you please have a look on the output here.

You can see it shows that the import is successful, but there is noting imported shown above.

[fuadnafiz98]

FYI
I am using this command:

terraform import -var "do_token=${DO_TOKEN}" digitalocean_droplet.droplet_import <droplet_id>

And this is on my droplet_import.tf file

resource "digitalocean_droplet" "droplet_import" {
    name   = "server-name"
    region = "sgp1"
    tags   = []
    count  = "1"
}

[fuadnafiz98]

Hi, I have fixed the issue.

I needed to write the droplet_import.tf like this

resource "digitalocean_droplet" "droplet_import" {
    name   = "server-name"
}

And it was imported successfully.