Terraform-provider-aws: Error when two different AWS Elastic Beanstalk apps have identically-named application versions

[hashibot]

_This issue was originally opened by @jffry as hashicorp/terraform#13335. It was migrated here as part of the provider split. The original body of the issue is below._

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If you are using Terraform to manage an aws_elastic_beanstalk_application_version, you will be unable to refresh state or apply plans if one or more other beanstalk applications (aside from the one you are managing) contains an application version named the same as the one you are managing with Terraform.

Terraform Version

v0.9.2

Affected Resource(s)

• aws_elastic_beanstalk_application_version

Terraform Configuration Files

#something like this. note that it's two separate elastic beanstalk applications (app1 and app2)
resource "aws_elastic_beanstalk_application_version" "setup1" {
  application = "app1"
  bucket = "bucket1"
  key = "first-time-setup.zip"
  name = "first-time-setup"
}
resource "aws_elastic_beanstalk_application_version" "setup2" {
  application = "app2"
  bucket = "bucket2"
  key = "first-time-setup.zip"
  name = "first-time-setup"
}

Expected Behavior

After a terraform apply, a terraform refresh should run fine and be able to create these.

Actual Behavior

Error messages like Error reading application version properties: found 2 application versions, expected 1 (comes from this)

Cause (I think)

This is happening because Terraform is only keying on the application version name when trying to list existing application versions (see this).

This means that if you have a Terraform-managed application version in one Beanstalk application, you cannot have any application versions with the same name in any of your other Beanstalk applications, or Terraform will throw this error.

Could Terraform perhaps also key on the application name when refreshing the Beanstalk Application Version's state? E.g. also pass an ApplicationName to DescribeApplicationVersionsInput?

Workaround

Just cook up a scheme to make the application version names unique (e.g. I'm suffixing the beanstalk app name, so in my example above, name = "first-time-setup" becomes name = "first-time-setup--app2")

[robinbowes]

Any idea how to recover once the error has occurred? ie. removing the duplicate versions? @jffry?

Answering my own question: delete or rename the application versions manually (on AWS)

[downspot]

@robinbowes having the same issue, there's got to be a better solution.

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