What is Terraform apply waiting for when it says 'still creating...'?

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I'm using Terraform with Microk8s on my laptop. This is in preparation for using Terraform for something larger scale so I'm checking it out. I have 11 services and they all start just fine (as reported by Lens). But the Terraform apply command I ran never completes... well it does eventually with a timeout. It keeps saying ... Still creating... for 4 of the 11 services. The others seem to be no problem. The 4 services in question are ones we haven't written in-house ie postgres, mongodb, mongoexpress, and nginx. They all have liveness probes on them and Kubernetes thinks they are running okay. What is Terraform looking for that I have missed? Thanks for any help

What provider do you use ? – jeremielate Sep 05 '22 at 02:05 — jeremielate, Sep 05 '22 at 02:05
Microk8s on my laptop. – RogerParkinson Sep 05 '22 at 02:32 — RogerParkinson, Sep 05 '22 at 02:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 05 '22 at 02:34

This was just me misreading the message. The problem was that the service was not being created. The pods were there (as shown by lens). The reason the services were not there is that I was configuring 3 load balanced services, each of which needs an allocated IP address and I had only configured one ip address.

What is Terraform apply waiting for when it says 'still creating...'?

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