AWS EIP does not have attribute ID

[hashibot]

This issue was originally opened by @elliottsam as hashicorp/terraform#5185. It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original body of the issue is below.

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Hi,
When trying to associate an EIP with a AWS NAT gateway, I am seeing the following error.

02:02:03 Error applying plan:
02:02:03 
02:02:03 1 error(s) occurred:
02:02:03 
02:02:03 * Resource 'aws_eip.nat' does not have attribute 'id' for variable 'aws_eip.nat.id'

This error occurs randomly and works normally 75% of the time, the logs show that the EIP was created before the NAT gateway.

[hashibot]

This comment was originally posted by @brikis98 as hashicorp/terraform#5185 (comment). It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original comment is below.

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Same problem here. As an added complexity, I'm using the count attribute on my aws_eip:

resource "aws_eip" "nat" {
    count = "${var.num_nat_gateways}"
    vpc = true
    depends_on = ["aws_internet_gateway.main"]
}

resource "aws_nat_gateway" "nat" {
    count = "${var.num_nat_gateways}"
    allocation_id = "${element(aws_eip.nat.*.id, count.index)}"
    subnet_id = "${element(aws_subnet.public.*.id, count.index)}"
    depends_on = ["aws_internet_gateway.main"]
}

The error I get intermittently is:

Resource 'aws_eip.nat' does not have attribute 'id' for variable 'aws_eip.nat.*.id'

[hashibot]

This comment was originally posted by @brikis98 as hashicorp/terraform#5185 (comment). It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original comment is below.

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May be related to hashicorp/terraform#4944. I'm trying the depends_on workaround now too.

[hashibot]

This comment was originally posted by @c4milo as hashicorp/terraform#5185 (comment). It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original comment is below.

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Even using depends_on, I have experienced sometimes AWS just taking more time than usual to replicate changes made by Terraform, causing this sort of errors to show up once in a while. Waiting for a little while and re-running terraform apply has worked for me.

[hashibot]

This comment was originally posted by @skarungan as hashicorp/terraform#5185 (comment). It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original comment is below.

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Got the same issue, while using different state-files
terraform apply -state=dev.tfstate ---> Runs fine and succeeds
terraform apply -state=qa.tfstate ----> Throws the following error

Error applying plan:

1 error(s) occurred:

* Resource 'aws_eip.mgmt_nat_gw' does not have attribute 'id' for variable 'aws_eip.mgmt_nat_gw.id'

Re-running the command worked though

[Ninir]

Hi folks,

Closing since it does not seem to happen as per the original issue.
Let us know if you still have the issue and we will re-open & discuss.

Thanks!

[ghost]

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