[Bug] Error: solution field is not supported in this version of the Elastic Stack for elasticstack_kibana_space resource

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Describe the bug
Upgraded provider version from 0.11.17 to 0.12.1. terraform plan evaluated an already existing resource and indicated that it had changed and would simply update in place.

  # elasticstack_kibana_space.team_spaces["devex"] will be updated in-place
~ resource "elasticstack_kibana_space" "team_spaces" {
      ~ disabled_features = [
          - "securitySolutionCases",
          + "advancedSettings",
          + "dataQuality",
          + "enterpriseSearch",
          + "fleet",
          + "fleetv2",
          + "generalCasesV2",
          + "guidedOnboardingFeature",
          + "monitoring",
          + "osquery",
          + "savedObjectsManagement",
          + "savedObjectsTagging",
            # (4 unchanged elements hidden)
        ]
        id                = "devex"
        name              = "DEVEX"
        # (5 unchanged attributes hidden)
    }

Apparently a member of that space adjusted the space's "Solution View" from "Default" to "Observability" via Kibana. That's not a problem.

The terraform apply failed with the following error message:

Error: solution field is not supported in this version of the Elastic Stack. Solution field requires 8.18.0 or higher

  with elasticstack_kibana_space.team_spaces["devex"],
  on kibana_spaces.tf line 1, in resource "elasticstack_kibana_space" "team_spaces":
   1: resource "elasticstack_kibana_space" "team_spaces" {

While it is true we are currently on 8.17.1, the "Solution field" is clearly available and working from Kibana. In addition this provider's README states:

The provider supports Elastic Stack versions 7.x+

So it is not understood why this should fail.

Versions (please complete the following information):

• OS: Linux
• Terraform Version 1.8.1
• Provider version 0.12.1
• Elasticsearch Version 8.17.1

[tobio]

Thanks for reporting this one.

While it is true we are currently on 8.17.1, the "Solution field" is clearly available and working from Kibana.

This is pretty annoying :). The solution field is only available to Elastic Cloud hosted Kibana instances for 8.16 & 8.17, and available for self managed instances from 8.18. I've updated the version check to support this attribute from 8.16 onwards, which will result in an error on self-managed instances, but we're aiming for as broad support as possible within the provider.

The provider supports Elastic Stack versions 7.x+

Just for clarity. Yes, the provider supports 7.x, but not all features (for example Kibana solution views) are available in 7.x and so shouldn't be expected to work. In general we've preferred to provide a clearer error "X isn't supported in this version of the Elastic Stack" vs a less helpful error from the Elasticsearch/Kibana API.