Cloudfront parameter to NOT wait for distribution to finish deploying

[t-pascal]

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Description

In #260 the feature was to change the default behavior for deploying cloudfront to wait until the distribution is completely deployed. This takes approximately 8-20 minutes. Unfortunately, we have a dozen cloudfront terraforms that we manage and our deployment pipline which used to complete in a few minutes now delays and waits an intolerable amount of time.

I feel like changing the default was a reasonable decision, but the option to restore the previous behavior (without locking our provider version) would be a welcome feature.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_cloudfront_distribution

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "aws_cloudfront_distribution" "consumer_traffic" {
  aliases             = ["${split(",",var.alternate_domain_names)}"]
  comment             = "Consumer Frontend - ${var.distribution_name}"
  default_root_object = ""
  price_class         = "PriceClass_100"
  enabled             = true
  wait_for_deployment = false
…
}

References

• CloudFront parameter to cause Terraform to wait until distribution is "Deployed" #260

• CloudFront parameter to cause Terraform to wait until distribution is "Deployed" terraform#8749

• resource/aws_cloudfront_distribution: Remove viewer_certificate configuration block argument ConflictsWith usage and fix various related issues with deployment timing #7794

[bflad]

Hi @t-pascal 👋 Thanks for submitting this. Good news, support for a new argument to disable the behavior, wait_for_deployment, has been merged via #8116 and will release later this week with version 2.5.0 of the Terraform AWS Provider. Since this is already completed and just pending release I'm going to close this issue. 👍

[rtlong]

See also #8073

[ghost]

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