Tekton resource creation fails intermittently - trying to create resources twice?

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I think this is a long standing issue, but I’m seeing the creation of tekton properties and triggers failing with the errors:

• The field ''name'' must be unique.
• CreateTektonPipelinePropertiesWithContext failed: Property of the same name

My guess is that terraform is creating these resources, but perhaps the provider timed out waiting for them to create and retried? And then the retry fails as these resources were actually created?

I understand that without debug logs, this cannot be proven, but reproducing this with debug logs enabled is tricky, as it doesn’t happen all the time. Wondering if someone could take a look at the log in the provider to see if my theory could be valid?

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Terraform CLI and Terraform IBM Provider Version

v1.13.4

Affected Resource(s)

• ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property
• ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_trigger

Terraform Configuration Files

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Debug Output

2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | Error: ---
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | id: terraform-17e6f3f1
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | summary: 'CreateTektonPipelineTriggerWithContext failed: The field ''name'' must be
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   unique.'
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | severity: error
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | resource: ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_trigger
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | operation: create
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | component:
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   name: github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   version: 2.5.0
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | ---
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   with module.workload["ContainerImage-skupper-network-observer-2-2-ubi9"].ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_trigger.manual_trigger,
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   on .terraform/modules/workload/modules/workload-ibm-cloud-onboarding/main.tf line 163, in resource "ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_trigger" "manual_trigger":
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |  163: resource "ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_trigger" "manual_trigger" {
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | Error: ---
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | id: terraform-b323781c
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | summary: 'CreateTektonPipelinePropertiesWithContext failed: Property of the same name
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   exists.'
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | severity: error
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | resource: ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | operation: create
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | component:
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   name: github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   version: 2.5.0
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | ---
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   with module.workload["ContainerImage-skupper-network-observer-2-2-ubi9"].ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property.properties["branch-protection-check"],
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   on .terraform/modules/workload/modules/workload-ibm-cloud-onboarding/main.tf line 172, in resource "ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property" "properties":
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |  172: resource "ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property" "properties" {
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | Error: ---
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | id: terraform-b323781c
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | summary: 'CreateTektonPipelinePropertiesWithContext failed: Property of the same name
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   exists.'
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | severity: error
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | resource: ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | operation: create
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | component:
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   name: github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   version: 2.5.0
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | ---
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   with module.workload["ContainerImage-skupper-network-observer-2-2-ubi9"].ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property.properties["repository"],
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   on .terraform/modules/workload/modules/workload-ibm-cloud-onboarding/main.tf line 172, in resource "ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property" "properties":
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |  172: resource "ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property" "properties" {
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | Error: ---
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | id: terraform-b323781c
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | summary: 'CreateTektonPipelinePropertiesWithContext failed: Property of the same name
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   exists.'
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | severity: error
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | resource: ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | operation: create
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | component:
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   name: github.com/IBM-Cloud/terraform-provider-ibm
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   version: 2.5.0
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply | ---
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |
 2026/08/11 11:04:25 Terraform apply |   with module.workload["ContainerImage-skupper-network-observer-2-2-ubi9"].ibm_cd_tekton_pipeline_property.properties["ibmcloud-api-key"],

Panic Output

Expected Behavior

Actual Behavior

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

Important Factoids

To work around it, I know I can either import the resources, or delete them and allow TF to re-create. But ideally the root cause should be identified and fixed.

References

• #0000