Terraform-provider-aws: AWS Provider is unaware of the new locals and doesn't consider them to be variables

[bhechinger]

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.10.7

Affected Resource(s)

terraform import

Terraform Configuration Files

locals {
  vpc_cidr_blocks = {
    "us-east-1:Network" = "10.10.0.0/16",
    "us-east-1:Production" = "10.20.0.0/16",
    "us-east-1:Stage" = "10.30.0.0/16",
    "us-east-1:Test" = "10.40.0.0/16",
    "us-east-2:Network" = "10.50.0.0/16"
  },
  "vpc_cidr_block" = "${local.vpc_cidr_blocks[terraform.env]}",
  "region"      = "${module.env.region}",
  "environment" = "${module.env.name}",
  "short_name"  = "${module.env.short_name}"
}

provider "aws" {
  region = "${local.region}"
}

Debug Output

wonko@deepthought:~/Documents/projects/terraform/Network$ terraform import aws_vpc.Production vpc-12345678
Error importing: Provider "aws" depends on non-var "local.region". Providers for import can currently
only depend on variables or must be hardcoded. You can stop import
from loading configurations by specifying `-config=""`.

Expected Behavior

Terraform should have imported the resource into the state.

Actual Behavior

An error was thrown.

Steps to Reproduce

Please list the steps required to reproduce the issue, for example:

1. terraform import aws_vpc.Production vpc-12345678

[mdiez-modus]

A simple workaround is to add
provider "aws" { region = "us-east-1" }

to main.tf

[Ninir]

Hi @bhechinger

Thanks for opening this issue. This is the expected behavior: providers are evaluated very early in the graph resolution, whereas locals are evaluated later on.

Thus being said, you can't rely on locals for providers so there's nothing much we could help on here unfortunately 🤷‍♂️

I'll wait for your feedback / answer here and will close depending on it if you don't mind.

Thanks!

[bhechinger]

That completely breaks the way I am trying to do region selection. Guess I'll have to find a different way. :)

Thanks!

[lorengordon]

Just got bit by this as well.

This statement just seems incorrect:

you can't rely on locals for providers

It works fine for terraform plan and terraform apply. It's only terraform import that is failing. Seems like this should be fixable?

[robinbowes]

I just hit exactly the same thing - apply is fine, import throws this error.

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