Importing Terraform Resources the Safe Way

Read Glovo's lessons learned from importing critical resources into Terraform Cloud and hear their key tips and current approach.

Importing Terraform resources into a remote backend (in this case Terraform Cloud) can carry some dangers, specially when dealing with workspaces used by many engineers at the same time. In this talk Samuel Baena Hayas will be talking about lessons learned from dealing with importing critical resources into Terraform and sharing their current approach in their organization (Glovo) as well as key tips. It includes an anecdote on he broke production in his previous company.

This talk is highly recommended for DevOps/SREs who have to deal with frequently used workspaces in Terraform as well as anyone who wants to know about the challenges of managing Terraform at scale.