Deprecation of user management via terraform

[fbreckle]

We maintain a decently sized userbase on aiven. We use this provider to create users and assign them to their projects and use a merge request based process so teams can manage their members mostly autonomously with supervision only from the userbase-owning team.

We recently started getting deprecation warnings for our terraform-maintained userbase. When investigating this, I assumed that the aiven_project_user resource had outstayed its welcome and we have to migrate to aiven_organization_user instead. I was surprised to learn that that resource is also deprecated.

Then I found in 0dd160c that "Invitation of organization users is not supported anymore via Terraform". Then I got to the "We recommend to use WebUI to create and organization user invitation" part and I'm like: 😮

Am I missing something?

How is this not a giant step back? Are we really going back from "everything as code" to "use your mouse and browser" (mouse of all things)?

What is the rationale behind this change?

[Serpentiel]

Hey, @fbreckle! 👋

We have the same idea that it should be done via Terraform, but unfortunately, the API was developed in a way that is not compatible with IaaC tools in mind at the moment.

I will forward this information to the relevant team. Thank you for raising this question!