azurerm_automation_runbook fails with 404 Error - Unless Published version of runbook already exists (v.2)

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Terraform (and AzureRM Provider) Version

Terraform v0.12.24

• provider.azuread v0.8.0
• provider.azurerm v2.6.0

Affected Resource(s)

• azurerm_automation_runbook

Terraform Configuration Files

https://gist.github.com/arcotek-ltd/389d3d74572ac1b1f74038c429a0c8c6

Debug Output

Expected Behavior

"Copy" the runbook from the given publish_content_link (storage account (URL)) and "install" the runbook in the automation account.

Actual Behavior

Receive error:

Error: Error retrieving Automation Runbook "myScript" (Account "myAA" / Resource Group "myRg"): automation.RunbookClient#Get: Failure responding to request: StatusCode=404 -- Original Error: autorest/azure: Service returned an error. Status=404 Code="ResourceNotFound" Message="The Resource 'Microsoft.Automation/automationAccounts/myAA/runbooks/myScript' under resource group 'myRg' was not found."

  on ..\azurerm_automation_runbook\main.tf line 36, in resource "azurerm_automation_runbook" "pool":
  36: resource "azurerm_automation_runbook" "pool" {

Why is it looking in the automation account? Of course it doesn't exist. Isn't that the whole point of this module?

According to the documentation:
publish_content_link - (Required) The published runbook content link.
If this means it needs to be the URI of the runbook in the automation account, why does your example points to a .ps1 file on Github?

content - (Optional) The desired content of the runbook.
If, in order to get this to create a runbook, why is this attribute optional?

I feel that the documentation could do with a little update to explain exactly what these attributes do in their current form, and the module needs improvement to allow a runbook to be created form a URI.

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

Important Factoids

References

This has been reported before, in #2868, but it seemed to go off on a tangent about module dependencies and didn't answer the actual issue before the bot closed it.

Thanks.

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This has been released in version 2.9.0 of the provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading. As an example:

provider "azurerm" {
    version = "~> 2.9.0"
}
# ... other configuration ...

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