[Bug]: eventual consistency issue with route table and associations

[nicolaferraro]

Terraform Core Version

1.2.9

AWS Provider Version

4.67.0

Affected Resource(s)

• aws_route_table
• aws_route_table_association

Expected Behavior

When creating a route table and related associations, everything should work.

Actual Behavior

Occasionally configuration fails because of eventual consistency problems.

Relevant Error/Panic Output Snippet

Error: error reading Route Table Association (rtbassoc-0da24ddd875aa9a22): empty result
 
        	            	  with module.network[0].aws_route_table_association.public[2],
        	            	  on ../../modules/terraform-aws-xxx-network/routing.tf line 27, in resource "aws_route_table_association" "public":
        	            	  27: resource "aws_route_table_association" "public" {

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "aws_route_table" "main" {
  vpc_id = var.vpc_id
}

resource "aws_main_route_table_association" "vpc-main-route-table" {
  vpc_id         = var.vpc_id
  route_table_id = aws_route_table.main.id
}

resource "aws_route_table_association" "public" {
  subnet_id        = var.subnet_id
  route_table_id = aws_route_table.main.id
}

Steps to Reproduce

Apply the configuration multiple times, especially in us-west-1 or ap-south-1.

Debug Output

Not available.

Panic Output

No response

Important Factoids

No response

References

No response

Would you like to implement a fix?

Yes

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