Hey there, i get an error in terraform saying that the iam user resource already . . .

Terraform
#1

daher:
hey there, i get an error in terraform saying that the iam user resource already exists,

  1. is there a possibility to skip it if the resource already exists (or)
  2. again delete it and create it from the terraform itself when it encounters something like this.
#2

Ghulam Muhee. Uddin:
please paste the error in this thread

#3

Mohamed Ayman:
Hello @daher,
it seems that this resource"iam" is not created by terrform, So, you should import it to tfstate using terraform import resource resource-name/id
eg: terrafrom import aws_iam_role test_role

#4

daher:
no this is not the answer im looking for… when i ran the terraform apply last time, it created the resources and when i try to run it again, it says the resource already exists

#5

Aditya:
@daher as a first step to resolution try a terraform state list and confirm if your state file indeed include the iam resource in question.