Error creating cobbler_system

[kasuke5]

I'm trying to create with terraform v0.14.8 a cobbler system but it failed everytime.
Using provider registry.terraform.io/cobbler/cobbler v2.0.2

I tried in first place with Cobbler 3.1.2 and I got the same result with Cobbler 3.2.1
Doing it directly with Cobbler command works, but providing the same infos with terraform don't.

From /var/log/cobbler/cobbler.log :

2021-04-16T14:25:17 - INFO | REMOTE save_item(system); user(cobbler); object_id(___NEW___system::KZSgRXWJJZE5QKm9JAQqpBWo/SyTNkgNcA==)
2021-04-16T14:25:17 - DEBUG | authorize; ['cobbler', 'save_system', <cobbler.items.system.System object at 0x7fd4da791e80>, None, True]
2021-04-16T14:25:17 - DEBUG | REMOTE cobbler authorization result: True; user(?)
2021-04-16T14:25:17 - INFO | add_item(system); ['test']
2021-04-16T14:25:17 - DEBUG | get_items; ['system']
2021-04-16T14:25:17 - DEBUG | done with get_items; ['system']
2021-04-16T14:25:17 - INFO | Exception occurred: <class 'AttributeError'>
2021-04-16T14:25:17 - INFO | Exception value: 'str' object has no attribute 'copy'
2021-04-16T14:25:17 - INFO | Exception Info:
  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 3415, in _dispatch
    return method_handle(*params)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 1908, in save_system
    return self.save_item("system", object_id, token, editmode=editmode)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/remote.py", line 1871, in save_item
    self.api.add_item(what, obj, logger=self.logger)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/api.py", line 728, in add_item
    self.get_items(what).add(ref, check_for_duplicate_names=check_for_duplicate_names, save=save, logger=logger)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/cobbler_collections/collection.py", line 388, in add
    self.lite_sync.add_single_system(ref.name)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/actions/litesync.py", line 202, in add_single_system
    self.tftpd.add_single_system(system)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/modules/managers/in_tftpd.py", line 144, in add_single_system
    menu_items = self.tftpgen.get_menu_items()['pxe']

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/tftpgen.py", line 368, in get_menu_items
    system=None, profile=profile, distro=distro, arch=distro.arch)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/tftpgen.py", line 465, in write_pxe_file
    blended = utils.blender(self.api, True, profile)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 605, in blender
    __consolidate(node, results)

  File "/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/cobbler/utils.py", line 754, in __consolidate
    results[field].update(data_item.copy())

From my file.tf :

provider "cobbler" {
  username = "cobbler"
  password = "cobbler"
  url      = "http://x.x.x.x/cobbler_api"
  insecure = true
}

variable "pfprefix" {}

resource "cobbler_profile" "test-cobbler" {
  name        = "test-cobbler"
  distro      = "SLES15-SP2-x86_64"
  enable_menu = true
}

resource "cobbler_system" "test" {
  name             = "test"
  profile          = cobbler_profile.test-cobbler.name
  autoinstall      = "test-cobbler.xml" 
  autoinstall_meta = "pfprefix=${var.pfprefix}"
  netboot_enabled  = true

  interface {
    name        = "eth0"
    mac_address = "50:6b:8d:b1:cf:c9"
    static      = true
  }
}

Is there somtehing missing ? cause reading from the provider documentation, I don't see any problem.

Profile is imported, and system is created but with interface informations missing

[hbokh]

It won't work in Cobbler 3.1.2 without hacking into the code. You need Cobbler 3.2.x.
Before we start trying to reproduce this issue, have you disabled caching in Cobbler?

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• Cobbler, release 3.2.0 (or higher), with caching disabled.
  Set cache_enabled: 0 in file /etc/cobbler/settings.

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Since v3.2.1 file /etc/cobbler/settings.yaml
Also see https://github.com/cobbler/terraform-provider-cobbler/blob/main/docs/index.md

Cc @SchoolGuy @holmesb
Looks like the documentation between GH and the TF Registry is "out-of-sync".

[SchoolGuy]

Thanks for the ping! I will put it on my long list. Let's see what I can do...

[hbokh]

Thanks for the ping! I will put it on my long list. Let's see what I can do...

The only way to publish updated documentation is to release a new version of the provider.
Reference: https://www.terraform.io/docs/registry/providers/docs.html#publishing

So when a release tagged v2.0.3 is pushed, we're "in sync" again.

[hbokh]

This is somewhat off topic from the issue, but I'm looking into using tfplugindocs generate - hashicorp /
terraform-plugin-docs to setup some improved documents generation.
It needs all resource_cobbler_*.go files used to have lines with a Description: added
Example: https://github.com/paultyng/terraform-provider-unifi/blob/main/internal/provider/resource_device.go#L31

Will have a look into this when I got some more time, so TBC.

See PR #6.

[hbokh]

No response in almost 6 months. Can probably be closed.