Aztfy not importing VM

[justPaulo]

Is there any special reason why Azure resources like Virtual Machines are not imported? Googled around and found more people with the same issue. There's even an automatically generated comment in the created code, example:

...
depends_on = [
# Depending on "/subscriptions/xxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/rg/providers/Microsoft.Compute/virtualMachines/vm", which is not imported by Terraform.
]
...

[magodo]

@justPaulo This is due to currently given the resource id of a VM, aztfy is isn't able to detect whether you want to import it as a azurerm_linux_virtual_machine, azurerm_windows_virtual_machine or azurerm_virtual_machine. Therefore, users are expected to type the resource type for it. This will be improved in a later version, where it will call Azure API to determine the type.

[justPaulo]

Hello @magodo
Thank you for your answer.
Unfortunately, I don't quite get it because unlike other GitHub tools like az2tf or terraformer where the VM resource types are indeed imported, regardless they are Linux or Windows VMs, I don't see it happen with aztfy. Also unlike the mentioned tools, I don't see how to specify the import of a specific Azure resource like a VM, example:
"terraformer import azure -r <> -R virtual_machine"
Is there any equivalent under aztfy?
And when you say "...aztfy is able to detect whether you want to import it as a azurerm_linux_virtual_machine, azurerm_windows_virtual_machine or azurerm_virtual_machine." does this mean there's an aztfy syntax allowing to specific such a resource?

Thanks,

[magodo]

@justPaulo Sorry that is a typo, I really mean "isn't able to"... Currently, aztfy only works to specify a resource group and import the containing resources, if there is a VM in it, you can specify which TF type you want to import it as (azurerm_linux_virtual_machine, azurerm_windows_virtual_machine or azurerm_virtual_machine).

You can check out this blog for a live walk through: https://www.kmruddy.com/2022/terrafy-existing-azure-resources.

[justPaulo]

@magodo no worries. Now I understand that actually, one has to "select" the resource marked with "Skip" to have it terraformed. However, the logic of skipping some resources and others not, escapes me...

[magodo]

aztfy can auto deduce the correct VM type now (#175).