assignment_location has no effect?

[edem86]

When using the def_assignment module, and setting assignment_location to say westeurope seams not to have any effect on the location of the system assigned managed identity. It always gets created in uksouth. Was looking at code but can't see a reason why it wouldn't let me override the default value ?

Thank you !

[Sadik Tekin]

Hi @edem86

Can you provide a code snippet of the assignment please?

I have just tested by setting assignment_location = "westeurope" and seems to be working fine

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[toby-p9]

@edem86 : Are you sure you are assigning a policy definition and not a policy set definition (= initiative)? The latter has a different default value for assignment_location located in modules/set_assignment/variables.tf where uk_south is used as default.

[Sadik Tekin]

📓 The location field must also be specified when identity is specified.

Both assignment modules set uksouth as the default location value to circumvent errors. Since this is optional as specified in the docs, if it helps I can make it a conditional input in the next release such as below, keeping the default value if one is not explicitly specified:

locals {
   assignment_location = length(local.identity_type) > 0 ? var.assignment_location : null
}