terraform helm release cannot re-use a name that is still in use-CodePudding

I am trying to deploy an helm chart to a k8s cluster using terraform, it runs fine the first time, but when I try to update the chart I found myself with this error:

Error: cannot re-use a name that is still in use │ │ with helm_release.deliverable, │ on main.tf line 8, in resource "helm_release" "deliverable": │ 8: resource "helm_release" "deliverable" {

Now, if I delete the chart it will work fine ( the first run ), but I don't want to do that everytime, is there a way to reutilise the releasename?

here is my code:

resource "helm_release" "deliverable" {
  name                = "releaseapp"
  namespace           = "appnamespace"
  repository          = "https://myrepo/repository/helm/"
  chart               = "releaseapp"
  version             = "0.2.0"
  repository_username = "myuser"
  force_update        = true
  wait                = true
  repository_password = var.acrpass


  set {
    name  = "namespace"
    value = "appnamespace"
  }

  set {
    name  = "image.tag"
    value = var.applicationversion
  }

  set {
    name  = "image.tag"
    value = var.applicationversion
  }

  set {
    name  = "timestamp"
    value = local.timestamp_sanitized
  }
}

locals {
  timestamp                    = "${timestamp()}"
  timestamp_sanitized          = "${replace("${local.timestamp}", "/[- TZ:]/", "")}"
}

I tried to change the helm chart version I tried to add both

  force_update        = true
  wait                = true

but still no success. Would you be able to help me, please?

CodePudding user response：

Gitlab CI infrastructure terraform state wont accept special characters in its name, so no state were created. Therefore when trying to read from it, it failed and tries to create a new resource that already existed.

I had my state name create from the git branch that in the first case was feature/jira-task

changing from:

${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/terraform/state/${CI_PROJECT_NAME}_${CI_COMMIT_BRANCH}

TO:

${CI_API_V4_URL}/projects/${CI_PROJECT_ID}/terraform/state/${CI_PROJECT_NAME}_tfstate

Solved the problem.