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Azure devops pipeline with terraform fails with error "A resource with the ID "/providers/Microsoft.Web/sourceControls/GitHub" already exists - to be managed via Terraform this resource needs to be imported into the State"

Babychen Daisy, Dona 20 Reputation points
2023-08-05T23:08:28.61+00:00

Azure devops pipeline for terraform failed with error 

A resource with the ID "/providers/Microsoft.Web/sourceControls/GitHub" already exists - to be managed via Terraform this resource needs to be imported into the State.

How to import this in azure settings. I gave in additional command. But it gave error 

1mError: Too many command line arguments
2023-08-05T18:21:46.5869211Z │ 
2023-08-05T18:21:46.5869722Z │ Expected at most one positional argument.
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  1. Vahid Ghafarpour 23,385 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2023-08-06T03:14:01.8666667+00:00

    It would be best if you used the terraform import command to import an existing resource into Terraform state. The correct syntax for importing a resource is as follows:

    terraform import RESOURCE_TYPE.RESOURCE_NAME ID

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