Skip to content

Commit 2bb9ad9

Browse files
committed
export-terraform-overview.md: inform user about portal v CLI distinction
1 parent 1bb0ea8 commit 2bb9ad9

1 file changed

Lines changed: 11 additions & 4 deletions

File tree

articles/terraform/azure-export-for-terraform/export-terraform-overview.md

Lines changed: 11 additions & 4 deletions
Original file line numberDiff line numberDiff line change
@@ -1,15 +1,15 @@
11
---
2-
title: Overview of Azure Export for Terraform
3-
description: Learn the benefits and uses of Azure Export for Terraform
2+
title: Overview of Azure Export for Terraform CLI
3+
description: Learn the benefits and uses of Azure Export for Terraform CLI
44
ms.topic: overview
55
ms.date: 05/10/2023
66
ms.author: stema
77
ms.custom: devx-track-terraform,devx-track-export-terraform
88
---
99

10-
# Overview of Azure Export for Terraform
10+
# Overview of Azure Export for Terraform CLI
1111

12-
Azure Export for Terraform is a tool designed to help reduce friction in translation between Azure and Terraform concepts.
12+
Azure Export for Terraform (`aztfexport`) is CLI a tool designed to help reduce friction in translation between Azure and Terraform concepts. This tool complements the [portal Terraform export experience](get-started-export-resources-portal.md).
1313

1414
## Benefits
1515

@@ -20,6 +20,13 @@ Azure Export for Terraform enables you to:
2020
- **Inspect preexisting infrastructure with all exposed properties.** Whether learning a newly released resource or investigating an issue in production, Azure Export for Terraform supports a read-only export with the option to expose all configurable resource properties.
2121
- **Follow plan/apply workflow to integrate non-Terraform infrastructure into Terraform.** Export HCL code, inspect non-Terraform resources and easily integrate them into your production infrastructure and remote backends.
2222

23+
## Comparison with portal export experience
24+
25+
This CLI tool provides more features in comparison to the portal experience.
26+
27+
- **Number of resources that can be exported**. In portal only up to 1000 resources can be exported, and the maximum exported configuration payload is 4 MB. Error wil be returned if the limit is exceeded.
28+
- **Supported resource types**. In portal, some resource types such as Key Vault cannot be exported, but they are supported in the CLI tool.
29+
2330
## Installation
2431

2532
The [Azure Export for Terraform GitHub page](https://github.com/Azure/aztfexport/releases) lists releases of the tool with links to installation for various platforms (Windows MSIs, Homebrew, and Linux installations) and the source code.

0 commit comments

Comments
 (0)