Adopt in place

Properties: I Honor the lower layer, XII Adopt in place
Goal: TODO
Done when: TODO
Restart from: lesson 6 (the lesson whose checkpoint to reload if this one breaks)
Mode: self-paced or live · about 20 min

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TODO: video

hands-on self-paced live

An import block brings a pre-existing role and security group under management, one resource at a time. You write the file and plan, or let terraform plan -generate-config-out write the first draft, which you then review by hand into the one-file-per-resource layout. Nothing changes on day one, and the plan proves it by showing no changes. A removed block backs a resource out of management without destroying it.
One at a time is the documented path, not a bulk import, because the repo manages what it declares and a bulk import declares a pile nobody has read (decision 38). Greenfield is the course’s own path and needs no adoption story.
The estate stays in native form, so walking away means keeping the HCL and dropping everything else. There is no export bundle to build because there is nothing proprietary to export from.

TODO: Video script or link. Optional.

TODO: Numbered steps. Imperative. One job.

TODO: What Floci or your own machine can and cannot show.

TODO: What the room sees. Timing. The line to say.