Automating Pulumi Import with Manually Created Resources

Introducing infrastructure as code (IaC) with Pulumi into organizations that have manually created cloud resources can significantly streamline and modernize their cloud management processes, even if they have already deployed extensive production workloads. Pulumi offers a compelling solution by allowing these resources to be brought under management with minimal effort while providing substantial benefits such as version control, automation, and enhanced security. The pulumi import command facilitates this transition by importing manually created resources into Pulumi's management framework, allowing for batch imports via specially formatted JSON files. This approach not only simplifies infrastructure management but also enables automated quality assurance, drift detection, and correction, making it possible to move away from the slow and error-prone practice of manual management. Pulumi further enhances this process by supporting various backends for state and secrets management and offering integrations with CI/CD pipelines to ensure consistent and compliant infrastructure deployment. This transition to IaC, even for organizations with legacy resources, is made seamless by Pulumi's tools and capabilities, emphasizing that it's never too late to adopt a code-centric approach to managing cloud infrastructure.