Terraform: Terraform does not bubble up VPC Peering errors

[kvz]

Hi there,

Running terraform 0.7.3, and when VPC CIDRs overlap when trying to set up a peering connection, it terraform is not bubbling up the error:

Error applying plan:

1 error(s) occurred:

* aws_vpc_peering_connection.us-east-1-eu-west-1: Error waiting for VPC Peering Connection (pcx-cfb33ba6) to become available: unexpected state 'failed', wanted target 'pending-acceptance'. last error: %!s(<nil>)

Terraform does not automatically rollback in the face of errors.
Instead, your Terraform state file has been partially updated with
any resources that successfully completed. Please address the error
above and apply again to incrementally change your infrastructure.

Amazon does show me why it failed to some extend:

Certainly not a blocking issue for me, but thought I'd share.

[antonbabenko]

Correct me if I am wrong, but the resource id is aws_vpc_peering_connection.us-east-1-eu-west-1. Are you trying to peer VPCs in different regions ? If so, it is not allowed by AWS.

[kvz]

Yes it was totally my fault. I just thought the error could be bubbled up as more folks my be doing silly things like me :) But thanks for that pointer, it was spot on!

[kwilczynski]

@kvz hi there! This is a good idea! Will look into it.

[stack72]

Closed via #9038

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