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Import a live UniFi / Ubiquiti UDM controller into OpenTofu (Terraform) — enumerate the controller and generate clean, appliable HCL for the ubiquiti-community/unifi provider. Plan-only, re-runnable.

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ubitofu — import your UniFi / Ubiquiti UDM config into OpenTofu (Terraform)

ubitofu enumerates a live UniFi Network controller (UDM, UDM-Pro, Cloud Key, or self-hosted) and generates clean, directly-appliable OpenTofu/Terraform HCL for the ubiquiti-community/unifi provider — bringing existing networks, VLANs, WLANs, firewall rules, port profiles, port forwards, WireGuard VPN, clients and devices under infrastructure-as-code. Plan-only and re-runnable: run once to import an existing controller, and again to reconcile drift.

It never runs tofu apply and never writes to the controller. Every run only reads from the controller and writes HCL to your working directory, so it is safe to run against production networks.

Importing an existing UniFi controller into Terraform/OpenTofu

Three subcommands take you from a live controller to appliable code:

$ ubitofu enumerate --config config.toml   # import blocks + coverage gaps
$ ubitofu generate  --config config.toml   # imports.tf + generated.tf + unifi-variables.tf
$ ubitofu verify    --config config.toml   # plan must be clean (or secrets-only)
  • enumerate walks the controller and prints import blocks plus a report of anything it cannot bring under management.
  • generate writes imports.tf, generated.tf, and unifi-variables.tf — a self-contained, appliable configuration for the ubiquiti-community/unifi provider.
  • verify runs a plan and passes only when it is clean (or the only diffs are in schema-sensitive attributes whose values live in variables).

Configuration is TOML:

controller_url = "https://192.168.1.1"
site           = "default"
api_key_source = "op"                                # or "env"
api_key_ref    = "op://YourVault/unifi.api-key/credential"
op_vault       = "YourVault"
workdir        = "./work"

Supported UniFi resources

ubitofu imports the resources the ubiquiti-community/unifi provider can manage: networks and VLANs, WLANs, firewall rules and groups, port profiles, port forwards, WireGuard VPN servers and peers, clients (by MAC), and devices.

Resources the provider cannot manage — NAT rules, DNS content-filtering, device adoption, RF/firmware settings — are detected and reported, never silently dropped, so you always know what remains outside code.

Secrets

Secret attributes (WLAN passphrases, dynamic-DNS passwords, …) are never emitted as plaintext. Each one known to the SECRETS table renders as a var.<name> reference, and generate writes a unifi-variables.tf declaring every referenced variable (type = string, sensitive = true) so the generated config is self-contained.

Variable values are supplied by you from your secret manager — e.g. TF_VAR_<name> environment variables or a git-ignored *.auto.tfvars. The tool prints a suggested secret-manager reference for each variable (rendered with your configured op_vault); references are reporter output only and are never written to files.

Sensitive attributes without a SECRETS rule are omitted from the HCL and added to lifecycle { ignore_changes }. As a safety net, any emitted string value that still looks secret-shaped (a secret-bearing attribute name, or a 44-char base64 WireGuard-key shape) is suppressed the same way, with a loud warning naming the resource and attribute — add a SECRETS rule to manage it properly.

How it compares

Unlike general-purpose importers such as terraformer, ubitofu is purpose-built for the ubiquiti-community/unifi provider: it knows which attributes are settable, which are computed, and which are secrets, so the HCL it emits applies cleanly instead of fighting the provider schema. Compared with hand-rolled scripts (e.g. terrifi-style one-offs), it is re-runnable and drift-aware — re-run verify any time to confirm code and controller still agree.

License

Licensed under GPL-3.0-or-later — see LICENSE.

Also relevant if you searched: unifi terraform import, udm as code, opentofu ubiquiti, ubiquiti-community/unifi provider import.

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