aws_ecs_service inconsistent delete timeout handling

[nijave]

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Description

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_ecs_service

aws_ecs_service.main: Still destroying... [id=arn:aws:ecs:us-east-1:abc123:serv...ng/my-service, 10m0s elapsed]                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     

Error: timeout while waiting for state to become 'INACTIVE' (last state: 'DRAINING', timeout: 10m0s)

The currrent implementation tries to delete for a given timeout but then waits for a fixed amount of time. This leads to failures for services that have high load balancer drain delays set https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/blob/main/aws/resource_aws_ecs_service.go#L1119 https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws/blob/main/aws/resource_aws_ecs_service.go#L1141

[bostrowski13]

wonding if there a workaround for this or if this will get some attention.

[ZdeAttre]

Put this parameter <force_delete = true> in the resource aws_autoscaling_group. It's worked for me.

[akuzminsky]

Put this parameter <force_delete = true> in the resource aws_autoscaling_group. It's worked for me.

@ZdeAttre, I'm curious why it would work. In my setup, Terraform doesn't attempt to delete the ASG; it just stumbles on deleting the service. Interestingly, the web UI doesn't show the service.