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title: "Terrafy"
slug: "terrafy"
updated: 2022-12-02T17:12:59Z
published: 2022-12-02T17:13:00Z
canonical: "docs.echo.stream/terrafy"
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> ## Documentation Index
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# Create Terraform from an existing Tenant

While EchoStream provides a fully-featured UI allowing the graphical design, development and management of your Tenant's processing network, you may have a use case that requires turning that Tenant's network into Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

Some use cases that may require this:

- You need to be able to snapshot and backup a version of your Tenant's processing network and potentially restore it in the future.
- You need to be able to replicate that Tenant's processing network in other Tenant's, or make it available to clients or partners.
- You wish to construct all aspects of your processing network using IaC; not just the EchoStream resources, but external resources such as ExternalNodes, ManagedApps and the resrouces that support them.
- You have a directive that all production systems must be managed as IaC.

EchoStream provides the [echostream-terrafy](https://pypi.org/project/echostream-terrafy/) so that you can have the best of both worlds; the full power and speed of the EchoStream UI and the full IaC control of Terraform.

`echostream-terrafy` extracts the current state of your Tenant and creates fully functional Terraform scripts and a statefile. These scripts can be:

- Used as-is to manage your Tenant's resources going forward.
- Converted to a Terraform module for reuse.
- Saved as a backup of the point-in-time state of your Tenant.

For details on how to install and use `echostream-terrafy`, please refer to the [Project Description](https://pypi.org/project/echostream-terrafy/) in PyPI.