Handle deleted out of context resources gracefully

[jamiezieziula]

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Terraform Version

1.8.2

Affected Resource(s)

• prefect_block

Debug Output

Panic Output

Expected Behavior

If a resource is deleted out of context (in this case, directly in the UI), Terraform should detect that and attempt to re-create it (or in my case, remove the resource from the state file).

Actual Behavior

Terraform throws a 404 error because it cannot locate the resource

Steps to Reproduce

1. Create a Prefect block via Terraform
2. Delete the block directly in the UI
3. Re-run the terraform plan

[armona]

Any update on this? We are experiencing the same issue.

[mitchnielsen]

Thanks for resurfacing this one. I believe this one aligns with #260 - I'll copy the tl;dr here for visibility:

TL;DR: from what I've seen so far, this is expected behavior and you can use terraform state rm to remove the Work Pool from Terraform's state, and then run the plan again to recreate the resource. If anyone has further evidence to the contrary, or if we get enough requests, I'm completely open to revisiting this.