Some resources can only be used in the context of an organization

[emmahsax]

Terraform Version

Terraform Version: 0.12.28
Provider Version: 2.9.0

Affected Resource(s)

• github_branch
• github_issue_label
• probably others that I don't use as much

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "github_branch" "branch" {
  for_each      = toset(local.branches)
  repository    = github_repository.repo.name
  branch        = each.value
  source_branch = var.source_branch

  lifecycle {
    ignore_changes        = [branch, source_branch]
    create_before_destroy = true
  }
}

resource "github_issue_label" "label" {
  for_each   = var.labels
  repository = github_repository.repo.name
  name       = each.key
  color      = each.value
}

Debug Output

Setting debugging seems to yield any separate results from running w/out debugging.

Panic Output

No panic output.

Expected Behavior

Terraform should've had no problems creating GitHub branches and labels on repositories that are owned by a GitHub user.

Actual Behavior

Terraform erred with the following:

Error: This resource can only be used in the context of an organization, "foobar" is a user.

  on ../tf-library/label.tf line 1, in resource "github_issue_label" "label":
   1: resource "github_issue_label" "label" {

Error: This resource can only be used in the context of an organization, "foobar" is a user.

  on ../tf-library/branch.tf line 6, in resource "github_branch" "branch":
   6: resource "github_branch" "branch" {

Steps to Reproduce

Please list the steps required to reproduce the issue, for example:

1. Use provider version 2.9.0 and specify a GitHub user as the owner
2. Codify creating a new GH branch for a repository the GH user owns
3. Codify creating a new label for a repository the GH user owns
4. Run terraform init
5. Run terraform apply
6. See errors

Important Factoids

None that I can think of.

References

• https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-github/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aclosed+milestone%3Av2.9.0

[anGie44]

hi @emmasax4, thank you for creating this issue! as of v2.9.0 only the resources listed in the description of #465 , a subset of resources prefixed with repository, have support for individual user accounts as we decided to roll-out user level support in batches since this is a relatively large change in the provider. apologies the PR does not make it super clear! unfortunately this does not include branch and issue_label but with this issue we can keep track of areas still needing support :)

[emmahsax]

Ah okay sounds good. I will keep an eye out on future versions of the provider for branch and issue_label then!

[jcudit]

Aiming to tackle one or both of these resources in an upcoming release to mop up issues with v2.9.0. Thanks for raising this.

[sogaoh]

@anGie44 @jcudit
From https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-github/issues/422#issuecomment-652455877

I couldn't create a github_actions_secret of individual Github repository similarly on v2.9.0.
Could you please correspond in v2.9.1 ?

[emmahsax]

@anGie44 @jcudit According to this (https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-github/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#291-july-01-2020) it looks like the ability to use github_repository with user individual repos was reverted? And that those changes will be made in the next major release, along with, I'm assuming, the issues I brought up in this Issue?

Is that an accurate assumption?

[frezbo]

This is really confusing with the revert that happened, I had to look at code changes and CHANGELOG to figure out why it was not working for personal repositories. For now I switched to provider version 2.9.0. Do we have a time line for the major release?

[jcudit]

Apologies for the mixup there @frezbo, definitely confusing 🙃

As for the next major release a couple of items are blocking:

• review of https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-github/pull/521
• refresh of acceptance testing capabilities (iteration visible here)

Given available bandwidth, my hope is that the release will ship sometime between September and October.

[dvargas92495]

Is there anything blocking further review of that PR? anything I could do to help? Context is that I'm blocked from using github action secret resources with a non organization account

[jcudit]

@dvargas92495 changes to unblock you (🤞) are now merged into the default branch. Any chance you can test this out?
A new release will likely land mid next week.

[dvargas92495]

I would love to test this out! Let me know when it's ready!

[dvargas92495]

This appears to be working for me!

provider "github" {
    owner = "dvargas92495"
}

resource "github_actions_secret" "deploy_aws_access_key" {
  repository       = "example-repo"
  secret_name      = "DEPLOY_AWS_ACCESS_KEY"
  plaintext_value  = "VALUE"
}

[frezbo]

yeh, this seems to be fixed in the 3.0.0 release.

[emmahsax]

According to this page, 3.0.0 isn't released yet?

[frezbo]

@emmasax4 it's released: https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-github/releases/tag/v3.0.0

[emmahsax]

Apparently github_branch_protection is still not yet available for individual users:

Error: This resource can only be used in the context of an organization, "foobar" is a user.

  on ../terraform/branch_protection.tf line 1, in resource "github_branch_protection" "branch_protection":
   1: resource "github_branch_protection" "branch_protection" {



Error: This resource can only be used in the context of an organization, "foobar" is a user.

  on ../terraform/branch_protection.tf line 1, in resource "github_branch_protection" "branch_protection":
   1: resource "github_branch_protection" "branch_protection" {

Perhaps it's planned for this resource to be added in a future release? @jcudit perhaps knows something?

[jcudit]

We revamped the branch protection resource and the changes should be landing in v3.1.0.

[jcudit]

I believe this is complete and will be released this week. Please re-open if I've misunderstood.

[emmahsax]

Apparently, as of 2020-10-10, version 3.1.0 is not yet released. Do we know what day this is planning to be released?

[srobinson]

This message also appears if your github token has expired. Just FYI and hope it saves someone some time.

[nakamura0907]

Docs overview | integrations/github | Terraform | Terraform Registry

You must add a required_providers block to every module that will create resources with this provider. If you do not explicitly require integrations/github in a submodule, your terraform run may break in hard-to-troubleshoot ways.

terraform {
  required_providers {
    github = {
      source  = "integrations/github"
      version = "~> 5.0"
    }
  }
}

resource "github_team" "this" {
  name                      = var.name
  description               = var.description
  privacy                   = var.privacy
  create_default_maintainer = true 
}

resource "github_team_membership" "this" {
  for_each = var.members