terraform config ai_generated true

Error: Unsupported attribute

ID: terraform/unsupported-attribute

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94%Fix Rate
96%Confidence
50Evidence
2023-01-01First Seen

Version Compatibility

VersionStatusIntroducedDeprecatedNotes
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Root Cause

Referencing an attribute that doesn't exist on the resource or data source.

generic

Workarounds

  1. 95% success Check the provider documentation for available attributes 
    Use terraform providers schema to list all attributes

    Sources: https://developer.hashicorp.com/terraform/cli/commands/providers/schema

  2. 88% success For nested attributes, check the correct nesting syntax: resource.name.block[0].attr 
    Terraform 0.12+ changed nested block access syntax

Dead Ends

Common approaches that don't work:

  1. Using try() function to suppress the error 65% fail

    Silently returns null; downstream resources get wrong values

  2. Adding a variable with the same name 80% fail

    Variables and resource attributes are different namespaces

Error Chain

Frequently confused with: