Terraform-provider-aws: Support alternative routing algorithms in aws_lb_target_group

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Description

AWS Application Load Balancers now supports alternative routing algorithms for Target Groups, starting with Least Outstanding Requests.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_lb_target_group

Potential Terraform Configuration

resource "aws_lb_target_group" "test" {
  name     = "tf-example-lb-tg"
  port     = 80
  protocol = "HTTP"
  vpc_id   = aws_vpc.main.id
  load_balancing {
    algorithm {
      # type = "round_robin" # Default
      type = "least_outstanding_requests"
    }
  }
}

References

• https://aws.amazon.com/fr/about-aws/whats-new/2019/11/application-load-balancer-now-supports-least-outstanding-requests-algorithm-for-load-balancing-requests/
• https://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticloadbalancing/latest/APIReference/API_TargetGroupAttribute.html#API_TargetGroupAttribute_Contents

[bflad]

Support for a new load_balancing_algorithm_type argument with the aws_lb_target_group resource (aliased with aws_alb_target_group as well) has been merged and will release with version 2.52.0 of the Terraform AWS Provider, Thursday this week. Thanks to @dhoeric for the implementation. 👍

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