When using Terraform module with TMC: Requested changes list more changes to cluster then expected

Products

• Tanzu Mission Control
• VMware Tanzu Mission Control

Issue/Introduction

You will see Fields Changed look similar to this: 

 

update
topology {
update
cluster_variables :
jsonencode({
update
ntp :
“XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX”
change to
" ntp.address.com”
})
delete
control_plane {
delete
os_image {
delete
arch :
"amd64"
delete
name :
"photon"
delete
version :
"3"
}
}
delete
core_addon {
delete
provider :
"kapp-controller"
delete
type :
"kapp"
}
delete
nodepool {
no-op
name :
"default"
delete
spec {
delete
os_image {
delete
arch :
"amd64"
delete
name :
"photon"
delete
version :
"3"
}

Environment

You are using Terraform to create a TKG cluster. 

Cause

TMC terraform is reporting changes if a cluster is created without an osimage and coreaddon as it is filling the default values.

Resolution

Engineering is aware of this and is currently working on a fix. 

Additional Information

Please keep this KB marked for further updates on what release this will be a part of.