azurerm_autoscale_settings: tag "$type" is treated as changed on plan

[Supermathie]

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Terraform Version

Terraform v0.11.7

• provider.azurerm v1.11.0
• provider.random v1.3.1
• provider.template v1.0.0

Affected Resource(s)

• azurerm_autoscale_settings

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "azurerm_autoscale_setting" "app" {
  name                = "${var.label}DefaultSettings"
  resource_group_name = "${azurerm_resource_group.app.name}"
  location            = "${azurerm_resource_group.app.location}"
  target_resource_id  = "${azurerm_virtual_machine_scale_set.app.id}"

  tags {
    Cluster = "${var.label}"
    DC = "${terraform.workspace}"
  }
…
}

Debug Output

Panic Output

Expected Behavior

After a clean apply, a re-plan should show no changes

Actual Behavior

An execution plan has been generated and is shown below.
Resource actions are indicated with the following symbols:
  ~ update in-place

Terraform will perform the following actions:

  ~ module.coffee_cluster.azurerm_autoscale_setting.app
      tags.$type: "Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.Common.Storage.CasePreservedDictionary, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.Common.Storage" => ""
      tags.%:     "3" => "2"

  ~ module.discuss_cluster.azurerm_autoscale_setting.app
      tags.$type: "Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.Common.Storage.CasePreservedDictionary, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.Common.Storage" => ""
      tags.%:     "3" => "2"

  ~ module.meta_cluster.azurerm_autoscale_setting.app
      tags.$type: "Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.Common.Storage.CasePreservedDictionary, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.Common.Storage" => ""
      tags.%:     "3" => "2"

  ~ module.sushi_cluster.azurerm_autoscale_setting.app
      tags.$type: "Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.Common.Storage.CasePreservedDictionary, Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Management.Common.Storage" => ""
      tags.%:     "3" => "2"


Plan: 0 to add, 4 to change, 0 to destroy.

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply
2. terraform apply

Important Factoids

References

• analogous to the following issue on a different resource: Azurerm_metric_alertrules tag $type is treated as changed after apply #945

[tombuildsstuff]

hi @Supermathie

Thanks for reporting this issue - just to let you know that a fix for this issue has been released as part of v1.13.0 of the AzureRM Provider :)

Thanks!

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