Cannot remove project and profile associated to project at the same time

[cquike]

I have a project that I deleted in my main.tf. There is a profile which associated to several projects using something like:

 resource "incus_profile" "my_profile" {
  for_each = toset([ "project1", "project2" ])
   name        = "my_profile"
   project     = each.key

When I remove project2 from main.tf and also project2 in the for_each mentioned in the profile I get an error:

Plan: 0 to add, 0 to change, 2 to destroy.
incus_project.testp: Destroying... [name=project2]
incus_profile.my_profile["project2"]: Destroying... [name=my_profile]
incus_profile.my_profile["project2"]: Destruction complete after 1s

Error: Failed to remove project "project2"

Only empty projects can be removed.

I guess the problem is that it is trying to remove the project before removing the profile.

This is not a big deal, since the next time I run tofu apply it worked, since the profile has already been removed, but I just wanted to report it as it would be a nice improvement that the dependencies between profiles and projects are tracked properly.

[stgraber]

So this may be a Terraform config issue. When you just set project to each.key in this case with the set passed to for_each being just a list of strings, Terraform has no way to model the relationship between that incus_profile entry and the incus_project.

Instead doing:

for_each tosset([incus_project.project1.name, incus_project.project2.name])

Would have provided the relationship data needed for Terraform to understand that this profile depends on the project and should therefore be deleted prior to the project.

I seem to remember seeing a depends_on statement that you can use too for those few cases where you can't have it built for you through references.