support creation of public IP without directly assigning to network interface

[mhenselin]

currently creating a public IP (floating IP) requests for network interface id (optional)

So that would force me to create a NIC with an public IP assigned.

I'd rather create the public IP upfront and attach it at a later to an interface as I then have the ability to rebuild a node and keep the same public IP.

Or is there any other proposed way to do that?

seems to be related: https://github.com/stackitcloud/terraform-provider-stackit/pull/582/files

[joaopalet]

Hi @mhenselin,

Thanks for opening the issue.

I'm not sure I fully understood your question. Are you asking if it's possible to create a public IP without associating it to a network interface right away? You can do that by not setting the network_interface_id field.

Let me know if this doesn't answer your question.

[joaopalet]

The purpose of the stackit_public_ip_associate resource is to associate an existing public IP (that for some reason is managed outside of Terraform) to a network interface.

To create a public IP via Terraform that is not associated to a network interface you can use the stackit_public_ip resource.