Creating Azure API Management through terraform failed because of timeout and the state file does not get updated with the resources created

Question

I am trying to create Azure API Manegement service using Terraform. The issue is that APIM service takes a very long time to create and terraform apply gives context deadline exceeded error or pollingTrackerPut#checkForErrors: the response did not contain a body: StatusCode=0

Although the resource does get created after the error comes on CLI, the state file does not get updated.

There is a workaround to import the resource using terraform import command after it gets created but that is not the way it should be.

How do I resolve it?

Answer 1

to extend the default timeout for terraform creation you can add the following to that resource:

resource "<resource_name>" "<resource_name>" {  
  ...  
  timeouts {  
    create: "1h30m",  
    update: "2h",  
    delete: "20m"  
  }  
}  

But I have always gone for the create-import option since I don't want to block my build agent for that long. But if the timeout comes from the underlying API:s this will not help and you should file an issue: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues (or search for if anyone else have filed one)

[edit]
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-azurerm/issues/17206
(seems like a similar issue, if the timeout solution doesn't help, vote this up/follow it and provide more info if you have)