azurerm_resource_group not supporting names within actual limit of 90 characters

[eddieramirez]

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Terraform (and AzureRM Provider) Version

Affected Resource(s)

• azurerm_v1.33.1

Terraform Configuration Files

provider "azurerm" {
  version = "=1.33.1"
}

resource "azurerm_resource_group" "main" {
  name = "super-long-and-comprehensively-detailed-but-within-ninety-characters-named-resource-group"
  location = "westus"
}

Expected Behavior

An execution plan has been generated and is shown below.
Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:
  + create

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  # azurerm_resource_group.main will be created
  + resource "azurerm_resource_group" "main" {
      + id       = (known after apply)
      + location = "westus"
      + name     = "super-long-and-comprehensively-detailed-but-within-ninety-characters-named-resource-group"
      + tags     = (known after apply)
    }

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

Actual Behavior

Error: "name" may not exceed 80 characters in length

  on main.tf line 5, in resource "azurerm_resource_group" "main":
   5: resource "azurerm_resource_group" "main" {

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

References

• https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/architecture/best-practices/naming-conventions

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