Parameter 'zone' should not be mandatory deploying CVO-HA on GCP

[pablogarciaarevalo]

Deploying a CVO-HA on Google Cloud requires the parameter 'zone'.

Error: Missing required argument The argument "zone" is required, but no definition was found.

Using 'is_ha = true' to specify that it's a HA deployment and not a Single Node, the 'zone' parameter should not be mandatory but the parameters 'node1_zone', 'node2_zone', and 'mediator_zone'.

[chuyich]

In here, the zone is actually 'GCP Region' on the UI

[pablogarciaarevalo]

This is not the meaning of a zone. Neither in the provider documentation: zone - (Required) The zone of the region where the working environment will be created

[chuyich]

The "zone" in terraform will be converted to "region". For example, if the zone is set as "us-east1-b", it will be converted to "us-east1" as "region" for creating the GCP HA CVO. Will update the document to clarify this.

[pablogarciaarevalo]

Thank you for quick your response.

Regardless that IMHO deploying a CVO HA specifying a GCP region in the zone parameter, the same zone parameter that we use to specify the GCP zone deploying a CVO SN and we don't have to set the GCP region in other parameter is confused and inconsistent, I've just tested the HA deployment using a GCP region in the zone parameter and it fails with an unknown error.

Error: code: 400, message: {"message":"Bad Request","causeMessage":"SimplicatorBadRequestException: Bad Request"}
  with netapp-cloudmanager_cvo_gcp.cvo-gcp,
  on cvo_11.tf line 15, in resource "netapp-cloudmanager_cvo_gcp" "cvo-gcp":
  15: resource "netapp-cloudmanager_cvo_gcp" "cvo-gcp" {

Our CVO HA deployment example suggests indeed to use a GCP zone, not a region: https://github.com/NetApp/terraform-provider-netapp-cloudmanager/blob/main/examples/gcp/resources.tf#L89

[chuyich]

Would you please run with debug flag and share the log with us? TF_LOG="DEBUG" terraform apply

[pablogarciaarevalo]

Sure, Here you have. cvo-ha-zone-issue.txt Thank you

[chuyich]

For the value of zone, it should be "europe-southwest1-a"

[pablogarciaarevalo]

Yes. But this is the reason that I opened this issue. This parameter makes sense for a CVO Single Node deployment. But it should not be required in a CVO High Availability deployment, the parameters 'node1_zone', 'node2_zone', and 'mediator_zone' should be the good ones.

[chuyich]

Thanks for pointing this. Raised DEVOPS-5814 to track this issue.

[lonico]

fixed in VERSION 23.1.1