Terraform incorrectly says elastic beanstalk environment has changed

[hashibot]

This issue was originally opened by @danhaller as hashicorp/terraform#11056. It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original body of the issue is below.

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TF version: 0.8.2 Resources affected: aws_elastic_beanstalk_environment

When an _aws_elastic_beanstalkenvironment has the setting aws:autoscaling:launchconfiguration:SecurityGroups set with multiple security groups, the security groups get reordered during a terraform plan, causing the resource to incorrectly be marked as changed.

resource "aws_elastic_beanstalk_environment" "prod" {
  name = "prod"
  application = "${aws_elastic_beanstalk_application.prod.name}"
  solution_stack_name = "64bit Amazon Linux 2016.03 v2.1.6 running Docker 1.11.2"

 setting {
    namespace = "aws:autoscaling:launchconfiguration"
    name = "SecurityGroups"
    value = "${aws_security_group.my_group1.id},${aws_security_group.my_group2.id},${aws_security_group.mygroup3.id}"
  }
}

From looking through issues it seems that the underlying AWS APIs sometimes reorder things. Possibly related to https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/6642

[nelg]

maybe also related, is the option, which maybe is causing the update when it should not. setting { namespace = "aws:elasticbeanstalk:application" name = "Application Healthcheck URL" value = "${var.healthcheck_location}" }

[stuffandthings]

Also running into this issue, consistent with what @nelg suggests (application healthcheck url)

[vchan2002]

@ltartarini90 brought up something in the parent ticket that was not brought over when the ticket got transferred to this....

Is there such a way to ignore certain changes, since these are subitems of the settings block?

Is there a way to ignore such "fake changes"? For instance, if I want to ignore all the changes of all the settings I can do like this: lifecycle { ignore_changes = ["setting"] }

But how can I ignore a certain setting?

[jasimmk]

Asking me, every time I run terraform plan even after I run terraform apply or terraform refresh

terraform --version
Terraform v0.10.7

 ~ aws_elastic_beanstalk_environment.perf-sb-userservices2
      setting.#:                    "105" => "107"
      setting.1036703857.name:      "EvaluationPeriods" => "EvaluationPeriods"
      setting.1036703857.namespace: "aws:autoscaling:trigger" => "aws:autoscaling:trigger"
      setting.1036703857.resource:  "" => ""
      setting.1036703857.value:     "1" => "1"
      setting.1107046800.name:      "HealthCheckTimeout" => "HealthCheckTimeout"
      setting.1107046800.namespace: "aws:elasticbeanstalk:environment:process:port8082" => "aws:elasticbeanstalk:environment:process:port8082"
      setting.1107046800.resource:  "" => ""
      setting.1107046800.value:     "5" => "5"
      setting.116105773.name:       "Rules" => "Rules"
      setting.116105773.namespace:  "aws:elbv2:listener:8082" => "aws:elbv2:listener:8082"
      setting.116105773.resource:   "" => ""
      setting.116105773.value:      "" => ""
      setting.1191462769.name:      "MatcherHTTPCode" => "MatcherHTTPCode"
      setting.1191462769.namespace: "aws:elasticbeanstalk:environment:process:port8083" => "aws:elasticbeanstalk:environment:process:port8083"
      setting.1191462769.resource:  "" => ""
      setting.1191462769.value:     "200" => "200"
      setting.1194166391.name:      "BlockDeviceMappings" => "BlockDeviceMappings"

[mahmoudian1]

I also have the same issue and it causes environment to rebuild

[mgaut72]

I see this issue in WorkerQueueUrl when I am specifying a queue url myself:

⇒  terraform --version
Terraform v0.11.2
+ provider.aws v1.7.0

       setting.1179183459.name:      "" => "WorkerQueueUrl"
       setting.1179183459.namespace: "" => "aws:elasticbeanstalk:sqsd"
       setting.1179183459.resource:  "" => ""
       setting.1179183459.value:     "" => "https://sqs.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/<my-account>/<my-queue-name>"

[eriknaslund]

As @adjavaherian noted in issue 43 - "It looks like some of these problems can be solved by using an app template".

[aconchillo]

For my use case, based on https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-elastic-beanstalk-environment/issues/43 (Terraform sends all settings to AWS, but some of them are not relevant to the environment you are deploying), I ended up creating a couple of modules, one with load balancer settings and one without.

Also, I didn't use https://github.com/cloudposse/terraform-aws-elastic-beanstalk-environment since it adds many things I don't need, so I kept things simple just using aws_elastic_beanstalk_environment on my two modules.

[Sytten]

I feel this could be easily solved by rewriting the comparison to accept out of order settings. We should also discuss what to do in case of conflicting settings between those defined and those in all_settings.

[jninnes]

I also had this issue and solved it by moving all my settings from aws_elastic_beanstalk_environment to aws_elastic_beanstalk_configuration_template as per @eKIK comment.

[hdodov]

This issue is related to https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/1471. I had a similar problem with SecurityGroups and I've posted the solution in https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/issues/1471#issuecomment-2333848298.