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I am new to Terraform and following a tutorial on how to create aws_elasticip module. When i perform ‘terraform plan’ this issue is present and i can’t move forward with creating my terraform file.

 terraform {
  required_providers {
    aws = {
      source  = "hashicorp/aws"
      version = "~> 4.16"
    }
  }
}

provider "aws" {
  region = "eu-west-2"
}

resource "aws_eip" "lb" {
  domain = "vpc"
}

I have also attempted to do this with a instance variable declared and the error still persists

terraform {
  required_providers {
    aws = {
      source  = "hashicorp/aws"
      version = "~> 4.16"
    }
  }
}

provider "aws" {
  region = "eu-west-2"
}

resource "aws_vpc" "vpc_a" {
  cidr_block = "10.0.0.0/16"
}

resource "aws_instance" "server_a" {
    ami = "ami-06464c878dbe46da4"
    instance_type = "t2.micro"
}

resource "aws_eip" "lb" {
    instance = aws_instance.server_a.id
    domain = "vpc"
}

The error I am getting is below.

│ Error: Value for unconfigurable attribute
│ 
│   with aws_eip.lb,
│   on main.tf line 25, in resource "aws_eip" "lb":
│   25:     domain = "vpc"
│ 
│ Can't configure a value for "domain": its value will be decided
│ automatically based on the result of applying this configuration.

2

Answers


  1. If you see the documentation about this module in terraform:

    https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/aws/2.36.0/docs/resources/eip

    This resource doesn’t have a domain argument. And the error message sais the domain value will be obtained after apply the terraform.
    Check the documentation in the link above to set the correct arguments.

    Hope helps you

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  2. The semantic versioning specification you provided in the config for the provider block is ~> 4.16 which resolves to >= 4.16 < 5.0.0. The domain parameter was migrated from a Computed attribute to an input attribute in the aws_eip resource in version 5.0.0 as a pseudo-replacement for the vpc parameter. You would need to upgrade the AWS provider to a minimum of 5.0.0 to use this parameter.

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