Platform & DevOps·Infrastructure described in a file
the resource already exists because somebody built it in the console, so you tell the tool to adopt it rather than recreate it.
State import
Also calledimport, adopting existing resources
Bringing an already-existing cloud object under management by recording it in state and writing configuration that matches it. It is the standard path for taking a hand-built estate into code, and it is laborious, because the configuration must match reality closely enough that the next plan proposes no changes. Getting it wrong produces a plan that quietly proposes to replace production.