Terraform recipe to create elasticsearch domain seems to be hanging - elasticsearch

Question

I have a terraform recipe which seems to be either hanging, or trying to asynchronously do the same thing A LOT of times and getting tripped up.
Here is the main code :
resource "aws_elasticsearch_domain" "es" {
domain_name = "${var.es_domain}"
elasticsearch_version = "6.3"
cluster_config {
instance_type = "t2.medium.elasticsearch"
}
count = "${var.staff_count}"
vpc_options {
subnet_ids = [
"${aws_subnet.public_subnets.*.id[count.index]}"
]
security_group_ids = [
"${aws_security_group.es_sg.id}"
]
}
ebs_options {
ebs_enabled = true
volume_size = 10
}
access_policies = <<CONFIG
{
"Version": "2012-10-17",
"Statement": [
{
"Action": "es:*",
"Principal": "*",
"Effect": "Allow",
"Resource": "arn:aws:es:${data.aws_region.current.name}:${data.aws_caller_identity.current.account_id}:domain/${var.es_domain}/*"
}
]
}
CONFIG
snapshot_options {
automated_snapshot_start_hour = 23
}
tags {
Domain = "${var.es_domain}"
}
}
Here is the "public subnets" code :
resource "aws_subnet" "public_subnets" {
count = "${var.staff_count}"
cidr_block = "${cidrsubnet(var.vpc_cidr, 8, count.index)}"
vpc_id = "${aws_vpc.main.id}"
availability_zone = "${var.region}${var.az}"
tags = "${merge(map("Name", "${var.company_name}-staff-${count.index}-subnet")
, map("kubernetes.io/cluster/staff-${count.index}", "owned"))}"
}
Here is the variable for my domain :
variable "es_domain" {
default = "my-es-domain"
description = "Domain name for elastic search."
}
And I have a staff_count variable which is "8"
Now, I would have expected the result to be that upon running this code, I would get ONE elasticSearch domain, with a subnet for each member of staff...
Now, that doesn't seem to be what is happening, I seem to get all caught up on an infinite loop (or some sort of race condition?) which goes on for over an hour until everything times out.
I get a whole bunch of errors which look exactly like the one below, but with a different number
* aws_elasticsearch_domain.es.3: "arn:aws:es:us-east-1:01043847838460:domain/my-es-domain": Timeout while waiting for the domain to be created
* module.init.aws_elasticsearch_domain.es[0]: 1 error(s) occurred:
Seems like it is trying to do it a whole bunch of times at once, right? If that is the case, I'd really love some guidance on how to fix it, I am new to terraform and am baffled by the syntax.

Answer 1

count = "${var.staff_count}"
This is the source of your multiple clusters. The count property indicates how many to make.