Terraform meta argument: depends on

https://www.terraform.io/docs/language/meta-arguments/depends_on.html

The depends_on argument should be used only as a last resort

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│ Error: Reference to undeclared resource
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│   on .terraform/path/to/you/module.tf line 15, in resource "aws_rds_cluster_instance" "this":
│   15:     depends_on = [ "aws_db_subnet_group.this", "aws_rds_cluster.this" ]
│
│ A managed resource "aws_rds_cluster" "this" has not been declared in yourmodule.db.
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See also

• Terraform functions, Terraform collection functions: tolist, toset, length, sum, file, join, depends_on, zipmap, replace, lookup, read files, concat, merge, templatefile, for_each, format, element, slice, try, filebase64, upper, filemd5, coalesce
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https://www.terraform.io/language/meta-arguments/depends_on