DNS record change is not reflected in Cloudflare

[makered]

Terraform: v0.6.16
Resource: cloudflare_record

I was able to successfully create a CNAME record on Cloudflare. Later I needed to change the DNS name so I modified the name attribute and applied the change. Result was:

module.elb.cloudflare_record.cf_dns_record_elb: Modifying...
  name: "oldname" => "newname"
module.elb.cloudflare_record.cf_dns_record_elb: Modifications complete

However, the Cloudflare record was unaltered and the output showed:

Outputs:
  cloudflare_elb_fqdn       = oldname.mydomain.com

HCL:

variable "dns_hostname" {
  description = "ELB DNS hostname"
  default = "newname"
}

resource "cloudflare_record" "cf_dns_record_elb" {
  domain = "${var.cloudflare_domain}"
  name = "${var.dns_hostname}"
  value = "${aws_elb.elb.dns_name}"
  type = "CNAME"
}
output "cloudflare_elb_fqdn" {
  value = "${cloudflare_record.cf_dns_record_elb.hostname}"
}

[catufunwa]

I'm still running into this bug with the cloudflare provider on v0.7.3. Is it me or has the cloudflare provider been really flaky the last few version?

[jlgeering]

issue still present in Terraform v0.7.13

[joshuajabbour]

I can confirm this is present in 0.7.13. The only workaround I have found is to comment out the individual cloudflare_record block so it's destroyed and then uncomment it so it's created anew with the proper name. Takes two applies, sadly. Unfortunately, there's no lifecycle option to force recreation in this manner.

Update: Also, after testing, some of the values do get updated, like ttl. Just not the name value for some reason.

[mwarkentin]

Also ran into this on 0.7.13 - wonder if taint would work to force a destroy + recreate?

[mwarkentin]

Opened cloudflare/cloudflare-go#97 to try and figure out if this is an issue with the upstream library.

[mwarkentin]

It looks like this may just be an issue with the upstream Cloudflare library: cloudflare/cloudflare-go#97 (comment)

Trying to work with their engineer on a fix here: cloudflare/cloudflare-go#98

[mwarkentin]

Tested the fix in cloudflare/cloudflare-go#98, seems to have fixed the issue when using the cloudflare-go library directly - I assume that'll fix the terraform issue as well.

[mwarkentin]

@stack72 @catsby The fix for this has been merged upstream - not sure what needs to be done to update the vendored lib. Let me know if there's anything there I can do to help get this closed.

[stack72]

Hi @makered - this is closed via #10910

[makered]

Perfect, thank you so much for the fix!!!

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