The AWS Go SDK automatically provides a default request retryer with exponential backoff that is invoked via setting `MaxRetries` or leaving it `nil` will default to 3. The terraform-aws-provider `config.Client()` sets `MaxRetries` to 0 unless explicitly configured above 0. Previously, we were not overriding this behavior by setting the configuration and therefore not invoking the default request retryer.
The default retryer already handles HTTP error codes above 500, including S3's InternalError response, so the extraneous handling can be removed. This will also start automatically retrying many additional cases, such as temporary networking issues or other retryable AWS service responses.
Changes:
* s3/backend: Add `max_retries` argument
* s3/backend: Enhance S3 NoSuchBucket error to include additional information
While #16243 added the ability to retry getting a state from S3, Put can
return the same InternalError status. Use the same retry logic when
uploading state to S3.
Internal errors from S3 are usually transient, and can be immediately retried.
Make 2 attempts at retreiving the state object before returning an error.
Since the DynamoDB table used by the S3 backend is no longer only used
for locks, rename it in the config to remove any confusion about it
being lock-specific.
The S3 client can return (nil, nil) when the remote state doesn't exist.
The caused a nil pointer dereference when checking the payload.MD5
against the expected value.
This can happen if the remote state was manually removed, but the digest
entry was left in the DynamoDB table.
Updates to objects in S3 are only eventually consistent. If the
RemoteClient has a DynamoDB table available, use that to store a
checksum of the last written state, so the object can be verified by the
next client to call Get.
Terraform currently doesn't have any sort of user feedback around
RefreshState/Get, so we poll only for a short time before returning an
error.
Move the S3 State from a legacy remote state to an official backend.
This increases test coverage, uses a set schema for configuration, and
will allow new backend features to be implemented for the S3 state, e.g.
"environments".
James Bardin