terraform-provider-azurerm: Intermittent Error: Unable to locate Storage Account "<>"!

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Terraform (and AzureRM Provider) Version

1.35.0 1.36.0 1.37.0 1.38.0 1.39.0

Description

I am getting this error intermittently when using azurerm provider 1.35.0, 1.36.0, 1.37.0, 1.38.0, 1.39.0. This issue doesnot occur on azurerm provider 1.34.0 and on earlier versions.

Anyone else had seen this issue. Below is the log for terraform plan command

2020-01-03T14:29:08.9014786Z ##[section]Starting: Terraform plan
2020-01-03T14:29:08.9018892Z ==============================================================================
2020-01-03T14:29:08.9018984Z Task         : Terraform
2020-01-03T14:29:08.9019106Z Description  : Execute terraform commands to manage resources on AzureRM, Amazon Web Services(AWS) and Google Cloud Platform(GCP)
2020-01-03T14:29:08.9019365Z Version      : 0.0.142
2020-01-03T14:29:08.9019475Z Author       : Microsoft Corporation
2020-01-03T14:29:08.9019548Z Help         : [Learn more about this task](https://aka.ms/AA5j5pf)
2020-01-03T14:29:08.9019668Z ==============================================================================
2020-01-03T14:29:09.0425642Z [command]/opt/hostedtoolcache/terraform/0.12.17/x64/terraform providers
2020-01-03T14:29:09.5124944Z .
2020-01-03T14:29:09.5126416Z └── provider.azurerm =1.39.0
2020-01-03T14:29:09.5126663Z 
2020-01-03T14:29:09.5157691Z [command]/opt/hostedtoolcache/terraform/0.12.17/x64/terraform plan -var-file=envs/dev/vars.auto.tfvars -out=tfplan -no-color -input=false
2020-01-03T14:29:11.1176401Z Refreshing Terraform state in-memory prior to plan...
2020-01-03T14:29:11.1179110Z The refreshed state will be used to calculate this plan, but will not be
2020-01-03T14:29:11.1179729Z persisted to local or remote state storage.
2020-01-03T14:29:11.1180065Z 
2020-01-03T14:29:13.9250714Z data.azurerm_resource_group.power: Refreshing state...
2020-01-03T14:29:13.9614330Z azurerm_key_vault.xxxxxxxxxx: Refreshing state... [id=/subscriptions/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/rg-name/providers/Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/mykv]
2020-01-03T14:29:13.9639469Z azurerm_storage_account.power_storage_account: Refreshing state... [id=/subscriptions/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/rg-name/providers/Microsoft.Storage/storageAccounts/mysa]
2020-01-03T14:29:13.9644189Z azurerm_application_insights.power_app_insights: Refreshing state... [id=/subscriptions/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/rg-name/providers/microsoft.insights/components/myai-we]
2020-01-03T14:29:13.9656039Z azurerm_app_service_plan.func_apps_consumption_plan: Refreshing state... [id=/subscriptions/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/rg-name/providers/Microsoft.Web/serverfarms/mycsp]
2020-01-03T14:29:14.1513932Z azurerm_key_vault_access_policy.spn_access_policy: Refreshing state... [id=/subscriptions/xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/resourceGroups/rg-name/providers/Microsoft.KeyVault/vaults/myvault/objectId/xxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxx]
2020-01-03T14:29:16.1417214Z 
2020-01-03T14:29:16.1418746Z Error: Unable to locate Storage Account "mysa"!
2020-01-03T14:29:16.1418814Z 
2020-01-03T14:29:16.1418851Z 
2020-01-03T14:29:16.2364297Z ##[error]Error: The process '/opt/hostedtoolcache/terraform/0.12.17/x64/terraform' failed with exit code 1
2020-01-03T14:29:16.2381103Z ##[section]Finishing: Terraform plan

Terraform Configuration Files

# Copy-paste your Terraform configurations here - for large Terraform configs,
# please use a service like Dropbox and share a link to the ZIP file. For
# security, you can also encrypt the files using our GPG public key: https://keybase.io/hashicorp

data "azurerm_resource_group" "power" {
  name = var.resource_group_name
}

resource "azurerm_storage_account" "power_storage_account" {
  name                      = "${var.product_code}sa${var.env_code}${var.location_code_we}"
  resource_group_name       = data.azurerm_resource_group.power.name
  location                  = var.location
  account_tier              = var.storage_account_tier
  account_replication_type  = var.storage_account_replication_type
  account_kind              = "StorageV2"
  enable_https_traffic_only = true
  tags                      = var.default_tags  
}

resource "azurerm_application_insights" "power_app_insights" {
  name                = "${var.product_code}-df-${var.env_code}-ai-${var.location_code_we}"
  location            = var.location
  resource_group_name = data.azurerm_resource_group.power.name
  application_type    = "web"
  tags                = var.default_tags
}

Debug Output

Panic Output

Expected Behavior

It should locate the existing storage account

Actual Behavior

Error: Unable to locate Storage Account “<<storage_account_name>>”!

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

Important Factoids

References

• #0000