r/aws_cloudfront_distribution should use wait_for_deployed (or new property) on destroy

[kevinkuszyk]

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Description

As we know CloudFront distributions can take some time to deploy and destroy.

We've had the wait_for_deployed property for some time now which is great. I was hoping that terraform would use that when destroying and not wait until the distribution has been deleted. Unfortunately it does not.

It would be great if we could either use this property to not wait on destroy, or add a new property for users to want to wait for deploy, but not destroy.

In my case, I don't want to wait for either.

If there is some consensus around this, I'm happy to have a stab at implementing.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_cloudfront_distribution

Potential Terraform Configuration

Maybe a new property for this. The default would be true to avoid any change in existing behaviour.

resource "aws_cloudfront_distribution" "front_end" { 
  # other properties omitted 

  wait_for_destroy = false
}

[dmitriyshub]

Great idea!