terraform autoscaling group destroy timeouts

Question

Is there any way to change the terraform default timeouts?

For example on terraform apply I frequently timeout trying to destroy autoscaling groups:

module.foo.aws_autoscaling_group.bar (deposed #0): Still destroying... (10m0s elapsed)
Error applying plan:

1 error(s) occurred:

 * aws_autoscaling_group.bar (deposed #0): group still has 1 instances

If I re-run the terraform apply, it works. It seems like the timeout is 10 minutes -- I'd like to double the time so that it finishes reliably. Alternatively, is there a way to get the auto scaling groups to delete faster?

Answer 1

You can add a timeout to a specific resource inside terraform

 timeouts {
    create = "60m"
    delete = "2h"
  }

https://www.terraform.io/docs/configuration/resources.html