Unable to destroy the VPC provisioned with terraform

[ghost]

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Terraform Version

Terraform version: 0.12.29

Affected Resource(s)

Please list the resources as a list, for example:

• digitalocean_vpc

Terraform Configuration Files

variable "do_token" {}
variable "pub_key" {}
variable "pvt_key" {}
variable "ssh_fingerprint" {}

provider "digitalocean" {
  token = var.do_token
}

resource "digitalocean_vpc" "example" {
  name     = "example-project-network"
  region   = "nyc3"
  ip_range = "10.10.10.0/24"
}

Debug Output

https://gist.github.com/outlawvik/175648e995aff182cec080ea765499b0

Panic Output

NA

Expected Behavior

Unable to delete the VPC with the destroy command

Actual Behavior

digitalocean_vpc.example: Still destroying...

Steps to Reproduce

Please list the steps required to reproduce the issue, for example: Create the VPC as per the guidance in the document https://registry.terraform.io/providers/digitalocean/digitalocean/latest/docs/resources/vpc

1. terraform plan
2. terraform apply
3. terraform destroy

Note: there is no problem in resource creation, only destroy has a issue.

Important Factoids

NA

References

NA

[jonathanvansina]

See your debug output line 21:

"message": "Can not delete default VPCs",

It's just as clear as this. You can't delete the default VPC.

Beside this, I don't understand why it's not possible to delete a default VPC by the API. It's logic that you can't delete a VPC with droplets (or other resources) attached to it. But if a VPC is attached to anything, it seems logic that you can delete it, even it's the default VPC.

[ghost]

Thanks for the review, I already have a default VPC, the VPC I am trying to remove is not the default one, I was aware of the context "message": "Can not delete default VPCs" but as it was not the default one as well as its not connected to any of the resources, due to the reason I requested the issue.

[jonathanvansina]

I just did a little test with your code and I can confirm that I'm having the same issue. But I saw what happened here. You created your first VPC for the NYC3 region, that VPC will automatically be your default VPC. And so as I mentioned that you can't delete a default VPC, Terraform will fail here (as of the API).

I repeat the same as in my previous post.. I don't understand why you can't delete a default VPC with no resources attached to it. This is not logic in this Terraform context.

[andrewsomething]

Unfortunately, this is a restriction in the DigitalOcean API, not something imposed by Terraform. There are plans to allow changing the default VPC for a region, but currently the first one created in a region is its default and the default can not be delete. I've passed this feedback along to the VPC team at DO.