Terraform: attaching a virtual private gateway to a vpc exceeds timeout default

Created on 2 Sep 2016 · 4Comments · Source: hashicorp/terraform

details below, in real life scenario, attachment takes sometimes more then 5minutes (noticed up to 8minutes so far)
recommend timeout value of 10min, or a way to configure defaults

Terraform v0.7.2

"aws_vpn_gateway_attachment"
...
module.payletter-vpc-usw1.aws_vpn_gateway_attachment.vpn_attachment: Still creating... (5m0s elapsed)
Error applying plan:

1 error(s) occurred:

aws_vpn_gateway_attachment.vpn_attachment: Error waiting for VPN Gateway "vgw-*_" to attach to VPC "vpc-_": timeout while waiting for state to become 'attached'

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lukasbernat

Most helpful comment

@stack72 Can we re-open this? I think the timeout should be bumped to at least 20 minutes. I can make the adjustment if you would like.

Z3r0Sum on 12 Dec 2017

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@lukasbernat apologies for the issue!

I will resolve this right away.

kwilczynski on 2 Sep 2016

Closed via #8636

stack72 on 2 Sep 2016

@stack72 Can we re-open this? I think the timeout should be bumped to at least 20 minutes. I can make the adjustment if you would like.

Z3r0Sum on 12 Dec 2017

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