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Difficulty incorporating existing infrastructure into Terraform
7/10 HighTerraform users struggle to bring existing infrastructure stacks under management because Terraform cannot automatically incorporate them into its state without manual intervention.
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Query: “What are the most common pain points with Terraform for developers in 2025?”3/29/2026
Back in the early days of Terraform, its issue tracker was full of complaints from people not being able to leverage Terraform with the existing stack. Fortunately, the import command was introduced, and this problem has been solved (at least at the system level).
Created: 3/29/2026Updated: 3/29/2026