google_service_account description not properly updating

[tdgeery]

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Terraform Version

Terraform v0.12.13
+ provider.google v2.19.0
+ provider.google-beta v2.19.0
+ provider.kubernetes v1.10.0
+ provider.null v2.1.2
+ provider.random v2.2.1
+ provider.vault v2.6.0

Affected Resource(s)

• google_service_account

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "google_service_account" "testing123" {
  project      = data.terraform_remote_state.service_project.outputs.project_id
  account_id   = "testing123"
  display_name = "testing123"
  description  = "Test Description... 123"
}

Expected Behavior

# google_service_account.testing123 will be updated in-place
~ resource "google_service_account" "testing123" {
    account_id   = "testing123"
  ~ description  = "Test Description" -> "Test Description... 123"
    display_name = "testing123"
    email        = "testing123@<project-id>.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
    id           = "projects/<project-id>/serviceAccounts/testing123@<project-id>.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
    name         = "projects/<project-id>/serviceAccounts/testing123@<project-id>.iam.gserviceaccount.com"
    project      = "<project-id>"
}

Actual Behavior

When trying to add or modify the description of a Service Account, the apply completes successfully but resource is not properly updated. Second run of plan/apply shows it still needs to be modified.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Add/Modify description argument to already created Service Account
2. terraform apply
3. Describe your service account via gcloud or look at the console for updated description
4. Rerun terraform apply

Important Factoids

Only occurs when the service account has already been created, and you're modifying/adding a description

[nat-henderson]

It may be that descriptions aren't modifiable - I'll take a look.

[ghost]

I'm going to lock this issue because it has been closed for 30 days ⏳. This helps our maintainers find and focus on the active issues.

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