[Bug]: aws_identitystore_group description not updating

[gab-despreslaberge]

Terraform Core Version

1.3.5

AWS Provider Version

4.43.0

Affected Resource(s)

• aws_identitystore_group

Expected Behavior

The description of the group should be updated when changed

Actual Behavior

The description is not updated

Relevant Error/Panic Output Snippet

terraform apply --auto-approve
data.aws_organizations_organization.this: Reading...
data.aws_ssoadmin_instances.this: Reading...
data.aws_ssoadmin_instances.this: Read complete after 0s [id=ca-central-1]
aws_identitystore_group.test_gab: Refreshing state... [id=<redacted>]
data.aws_organizations_organization.this: Read complete after 1s [id=<redacted>]

Terraform used the selected providers to generate the following execution plan. Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:
  ~ update in-place

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # aws_identitystore_group.test_gab will be updated in-place
  ~ resource "aws_identitystore_group" "test_gab" {
      ~ description       = "test_gab" -> "change me"
        id                = "<redacted>"
        # (4 unchanged attributes hidden)
    }

Plan: 0 to add, 1 to change, 0 to destroy.
aws_identitystore_group.test_gab: Modifying... [id=<redacted>]
aws_identitystore_group.test_gab: Modifications complete after 0s [id=<redacted>]

Apply complete! Resources: 0 added, 1 changed, 0 destroyed.

terraform plan                
data.aws_organizations_organization.this: Reading...
data.aws_ssoadmin_instances.this: Reading...
data.aws_ssoadmin_instances.this: Read complete after 0s [id=ca-central-1]
aws_identitystore_group.test_gab: Refreshing state... [id=<redacted>]
data.aws_organizations_organization.this: Read complete after 1s [id=<redacted>]

Terraform used the selected providers to generate the following execution plan. Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:
  ~ update in-place

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # aws_identitystore_group.test_gab will be updated in-place
  ~ resource "aws_identitystore_group" "test_gab" {
      ~ description       = "test_gab" -> "change me"
        id                = "<redacted>"
        # (4 unchanged attributes hidden)
    }

Plan: 0 to add, 1 to change, 0 to destroy.

Terraform Configuration Files

main.tf

provider "aws" {}
data "aws_ssoadmin_instances" "this" {}

locals {
  identity_store_id             = tolist(data.aws_ssoadmin_instances.this.identity_store_ids)[0]
}

resource "aws_identitystore_group" "test_gab" {
  identity_store_id = local.identity_store_id
  display_name = "test_gab"
  description    = "initial description"
}

Steps to Reproduce

• Create a SSO group using the main.tf above with terraform apply
• Change the description in main.tf
• Apply the changes again: terraform apply
• The description will not have changed, can be confirmed in the AWS Console and a terraform plan will yield the same changes over and over.

Debug Output

https://gist.github.com/gab-despreslaberge/8c653c187b253a6d8c3772568ef5d80f

Panic Output

No response

Important Factoids

No response

References

No response

Would you like to implement a fix?

No

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[selfisch]

Same issue here. Deleting and recreating the group solves it temporarily.

I am creating permission-sets in the same apply, with the same description, pulled from a variable. The permission-sets deploy successfully.

[rruben-kyndryl]

Any update on this? I am facing the same issue.

[mgs-garcia]

same issue here

[RobinFrcd]

Changing the display_name of the resource forces the replacement. It's a dirty way to force the update of the description, but it's working.

[fbeering]

/push

[rpolak]

same issue here

[zoltan-szabo]

This issue is still exists. v1.5.1

[christoph-kluge]

Issue still happens with latest tf and provider version.

• Terraform v1.5.6
• hashicorp/aws 5.15.0

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This functionality has been released in v5.23.0 of the Terraform AWS Provider. Please see the Terraform documentation on provider versioning or reach out if you need any assistance upgrading.

For further feature requests or bug reports with this functionality, please create a new GitHub issue following the template. Thank you!

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