Terraform: null_resource asks for 'content' or 'source'

[shantanugadgil]

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.9.8

Affected Resource(s)

Please list the resources as a list, for example:

• null_resource

I have a null_resource which has a few triggers and a bunch of file provisioners.

Things were working fine in v0.9.6
Now with v0.9.8 when I do plan, it complains:

- * null_resource.data_dir: Must provide one of 'content' or 'source'

Seems to be something similar to

• GH-15177

Regards,
Shantanu

[shantanugadgil]

Switching my binary back to v0.9.6 has made it work.

[onorua]

Duplicate of https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/issues/15177

[shantanugadgil]

Hi,

After looking at @onorua 's comment, I closely examined my configuration.
I thought it was something to do with the null_resource

Actually, the problem is:

  provisioner "file" {
    content = "${data.template_file.test.rendered}"
    destination = "foo"
  }

Changing it to the following makes the plan warning go away, but doesn't mean the same, so the problem remain (overall)

  provisioner "file" {
    content = "boo"
    destination = "foo"
  }

For my use case, I have variables substituted in the template_file.

Regards,
Shantanu

[shantanugadgil]

Ok, so I have changed by "data template_file" to be used directly in the "content" block of the file provisioner, but this doesn't detect if I make changes in the "content =" line.

I had previously set a trigger on the sha256 of the template file which I was using, so this breaks my current workflow. 😢 😞

Hope this gets fixed soon,

Regards,
Shantanu

[svanharmelen]

This is fixed in 0.9.9 :wink:

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