Terraform import - vmware - custom attributes

Terraform
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Hello,

I’d like to obtain custom_attributes of a vmware virtual machine from terraform import command.

Is there a way to achieve this ?

At this moment i only obtain an empty field like this in my .tfstate file.

"custom_attributes": {},

So these fields might be erased when performing changes on existing virtual machine if not handled on .tf file.

Is there a solution with terraform ?

Thanks for your help :slight_smile:

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Up on this case.

As a Workaround i had to do these steps to obtain custom attributes values after my terraform import

terraform plan -out tfplan
terraform show -json tfplan > plan.json

then edit custom_attributes in my .tfplan file and then doing again a

terraform plan -out tfplan

to prepare my next apply.

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It is weird that terraform-import command doesn’t fill custom_attributes in its .tfstate file field but exporting the plan can give you theses values in the .json file.

Any help, advices appreciated :slight_smile: