Wait for Data Center Object

[ModernDude]

I'm using Terraform to create groups across an estate of 20+ NSX-T instances. Within the same Terraform execution, I subsequently add the groups into Checkpoint using the checkpoint_management_vmware_data_center_server resource.

I observe varied latency between the time a group is added into NSX-T and the time that group is recognized by CheckPoint. It can range from 2 seconds to 5 minutes.

When I attempt to add the group into CheckPoint via the checkpoint_management_vmware_data_center_server resource, I frequently receive errors indicating the group is not available in the target system. To work around this, I've added a five minute sleep within Terraform between the call to NSX-T and the call to CheckPoint.

This mostly works, however, my program is now executing a five minute sleep in many cases in which only a sleep of a few seconds is needed. Naturally, this slows down my system.

To optimize this, I want to ask if a better approach is to have the Terraform provider poll the CheckPoint show-data-center-content API immediately upon invocation of adding a new data center object. In other words, the Terraform provider would poll CheckPoint until a configurable timeout and only continue the call to add-data-center-object once the that object has been confirmed to be available.

It could work very similar to the waitForTask function within terraform-provider-checkpoint.

If you find merit in this idea, I'm willing to submit a Pull Request.

[chkp-adambar]

@lamf-lamf From our side it will be great if you would like to contribute to the Check Point Provider.
You can submit a pull request and we will review it.
Thanks.