Hi, We are using terraform version 0.12.29. We have a pipeline which runs the following commands: terraform init terraform validate terraform plan terraform apply -auto-approve The time it used to take in the beginning was nearly 5 to 10 minutes but now as ou…

Hi @aujjwal-smarsh , Without any more details it’s hard to offer specific advice. One option you have is to test higher settings of the -parallelism flag. The default is 10, but if your configuration contains a lot of resources that can be concurrently updated and the remote API allows it, increasin…

Thanks @jbardin for the suggestion. I used parallelism but it doesn’t show much difference. It used to take 30 min before but after adding parallelism 20 it takes 29 min 40 sec, parallelism 30 is same around 30 min and parallelism 40 is 31 minutes. Do you know why it is increasing as we increase th…

A variation of around 3% when making so many network calls to remote APIs isn’t really conclusive of anything. Again, without specifics I can’t say for sure, it’s possible the structure of the configuration doesn’t allow for much concurrency. Many services have rate limits for protection too that ar…

Another thing to think about is splitting into multiple root modules. Often there will be logical groupings of resources which might be owned by different groups or have different change cadences. It can make a lot of sense to split things instead of having one root module that does everything.

Hi @stuart-c , Thanks for the suggestion. Sorry, I am quite new to terraform and have less understanding of modules. Is there any resource I can refer to understand what you meant by root modules and by different groups and change cadences. Regards

Thanks @jbardin I have got a better insight into what things to consider. Regards

A root module is the place you run the terraform command, and has an associated state file. So multiple root modules means having different places that Terraform is run, each with their own separate state file. Exactly how you structure this would be up to you, but common options include different…

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Terraform plan taking long time

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