Changing AWS instance type

[nwalke]

So I have an instance like this:

I changed the instance type from a c4.large to a c4.xlarge in the console, because terraform wanted to do a delete/create to change the type. I then changed my terraform configuration to c4.xlarge.

When I run terraform plan, it says that it's refreshing the state prior to the plan. But then it doesn't see that the type has already been changed outside terraform and thus wants me to delete/create the instance:

Is this the expected behavior?

[phinze]

Ah yes - we should detect this as "drift" of the instance_type param. Tagged as a bug and pushing a fix now.

[nwalke]

Awesome @phinze. You guys are closing these bugs so fast!

[CpuID]

@phinze not sure if this is actually fixed...? Just had it happen in 0.6.0

[CpuID]

@phinze ignore me, just noticed the .tf file was out of date, so it was trying to make a legitimate change. false alarm.

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