Create gitlab project from template with terraform provider - gitlab

Question

I want to crate a gitlab project from a template via terafrom code.
resource "gitlab_project" "services_projects" {
for_each = local.service_projects
name = "${each.key}"
default_branch = "main"
description = ""
issues_enabled = false
merge_requests_enabled = false
namespace_id = "${gitlab_group.services_group.id}"
snippets_enabled = false
visibility_level = "private"
wiki_enabled = false
use_custom_template = "${each.value.use_custom_template}"
template_project_id = "${each.value.template_project_id}"
group_with_project_templates_id = var.group_with_project_templates_id
}
This works, all my projects were crated and also the project to be created from template is created from the template. But then terraform errors with:
module.services["test_tf_1"].gitlab_project.services_projects["values"]: Destruction complete after 5s
75module.services["test_tf_1"].gitlab_project.services_projects["values"]: Creating...
76╷
77│ Error: error while waiting for project "values" import to finish: unexpected state 'failed', wanted target 'finished'. last error: %!s(<nil>)
78│
79│ with module.services["test_tf_bb_1"].gitlab_project.services_projects["values"],
80│ on modules/gitlab/main.tf line 132, in resource "gitlab_project" "services_projects":
81│ 132: resource "gitlab_project" "services_projects" {
82│
83╵
85
Cleaning up project directory and file based variables
00:01
87ERROR: Job failed: command terminated with exit code 1
Does anyone knows where this error comes from or how I can solve it?
I think it has something to do with the missing template_link but I don't really understand the concept. Creating one does not work.
https://registry.terraform.io/providers/gitlabhq/gitlab/latest/docs/resources/group_project_file_template

Answer 1

I think it's an issue of Gitlab itself, not your code/terraform provider.
Please see https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/208452
It might be a flaky bug. In my case it helped simply to re-run the same code.