storage bucket being created by tf despite being manually created due to requirements of tf backend block

[harshal-vaidya-mox]

I'm using AWS.

The backend block uses the same bucket which is referenced by var.storage_bucket. The bucket used by the backend block needs to exist before tf is kicked in.

Store Terraform state in S3`
terraform {
backend "s3" {
# The bucket name is a variable defined in 'terraform.tfvars' (as 'storage_bucket'), but variables are not allowed in this block. If you change this, you will need to change that.
bucket = "mox-opencti-storage"
key = "terraform.tfstate"
# Again, no variable interpolation in this block so make sure this matches the region defined in 'terraform.tfvars'. Default 'us-east-1'.
region = "ap-southeast-1"
}
}

When tf runs the var.storage_bucket is again created which results in the following error during apply.

Error: Error creating S3 bucket: BucketAlreadyOwnedByYou: Your previous request to create the named bucket succeeded and you already own it.
status code: 409, request id: 8Z941E8XX87E8B2V, host id: bZnhhA0Wqgx1NpnCqZtT08+ut0z67ReihQmFBB4ER6CSYlIqDZP+nLKUu7rGpf5TsDqfysXDDZM=
on storage.tf line 2, in resource "aws_s3_bucket" "opencti_bucket":
2: resource "aws_s3_bucket" "opencti_bucket" {

The offending block is:

S3 bucket to store install and connectors scripts.
resource "aws_s3_bucket" "opencti_bucket" {
bucket = var.storage_bucket
acl = "private"
//Turn on bucket versioning. We'll be storing the Terraform state in S3 and versioning will help protect against human error.
versioning {
enabled = true
}
}

Please remove this offending block and re-arrange the code.

[ozuser]

+1

[chrisrios88]

Running into the same issue -- Do you have a fix?

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2022-04-11T16:00:13.569-0400 [DEBUG] [aws-sdk-go]
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│ Warning: Argument is deprecated
│
│ with aws_s3_bucket.opencti_bucket,
│ on storage.tf line 2, in resource "aws_s3_bucket" "opencti_bucket":
│ 2: resource "aws_s3_bucket" "opencti_bucket" {
│
│ Use the aws_s3_bucket_versioning resource instead
│
│ (and one more similar warning elsewhere)
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│ Error: error creating S3 Bucket (opencti-storage): BucketAlreadyExists: The requested bucket name is not available. The bucket namespace is shared by all users of the system. Please select a different name and try again.