depends_on (on a resource) cannot be used in module

[khateeb15]

Terraform Version

v0.11.7

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "aws_alb" "internal_alb" {
.
.
}

module "something" {
  source = "something"
  depends_on = ["aws_alb.internal_alb"]
}

Crash Output

Error: module "something": "depends_on" is not a valid argument

Expected Behavior

As per the documentation and a lot of other similar issues (mostly complaining that a module cannot depends_on a resource created in in another module) in which terraform is saying that a module can depends_on a resource, the expected behaviour is that the resource mentioned in the depends_on will be created before the module.

Actual Behavior

getting an error

References

• depends_on for data_source #10603

Additional Context

please note that this is not a duplicate of #18239, #10462 or #10603, those issues are talking about referencing a resource created in another module, while this is just talking about referencing another resource that hasn't been created as part of a module.

[jbardin]

hi @khateeb15,

Sorry about any confusion here, as the other issues have often digress onto other tracks, but If I understand you correctly, this really is a duplicate of #10462. The error you see is because depends_on isn't valid in a module block, which is expected because that configuration option isn't supported at this time.

If there is documentation implying that depends_on can be used within the module block, please let us know so that it can be updated in the meantime.

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