Incomplete documentation for aws_instance.ebs_block_device

[acdha]

The aws_instance documentation says this:

For any root_block_device and ebs_block_device the volume_id is exported. e.g. aws_instance.web.root_block_device.0.volume_id

Unfortunately, at some point in 0.12 that changed to be a set data type and there's no easily-discovered documentation indicating what values are used to populate it. The right thing to do is probably to use aws_ebs_volume but it'd be nice if the documentation had a usable example.

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Terraform Version

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Affected Resource(s)

• aws_instance

[justinretzolk]

Hey @acdha 👋 Thank you for taking the time to file this issue. There's been a few updates to the documentation for the aws_instance since you initially filed this, so I wanted to circle back and see if you still feel there's missing information in the documentation. If you still feel it's lacking any important details, can you let us know?

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