Error in Terraform operations after manual deletion of resources

[hoiwingh]

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Terraform CLI and Terraform IBM Provider Version

Affected Resource(s)

• ibm_XXXXX

Terraform Configuration Files

Please include all Terraform configurations required to reproduce the bug. Bug reports without a functional reproduction may be closed without investigation.

# Copy-paste your Terraform configurations here - for large Terraform configs,
# please share a link to the ZIP file.

Debug Output

Panic Output

Expected Behavior

After a terraform deployed resource is manually deleted, subsequent operations (e.g. plan, destroy) should still succeed.

Actual Behavior

After a terraform deployed resource is manually deleted, subsequent operations (e.g. plan, destroy) failed.

We tried these operations via IBM Schematics, which got a 403 error.

Schematics team suspects that when resources are deleted outside terraform, the next terraform actions fail to update the state file correctly.

Steps to Reproduce

Manually delete a terraform deployed resource and then run a plan or destroy.

1. terraform apply

Important Factoids

References

• #0000

[ujjwal-ibm]

Can you provide the list of resources involved ?

[hoiwingh]

Here's the list of resource types involved. In my case, I have deleted a resource cos_instance of type ibm_resource_instance. Note that it works fine if I rename it (as opposed to deleting).

ibm_cd_toolchain_tool_hostedgit
ibm_cos_bucket
ibm_resource_instance
null_resource
ibm_iam_access_group_policy
ibm_resource_group
external
gitlab_repository_file
ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline
ibm_cd_toolchain_tool_pipeline
ibm_cd_toolchain_tool_hostedgit
ibm_iam_access_group
ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_definition
ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property
ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property
ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property
ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property
ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property
ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property
ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_trigger
ibm_cd_toolchain
ibm_resource_group

[hoiwingh]

@ujjwal-ibm - any update?