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Use Terraform to Provision Infrastructure on Linode Proposed Changes #7479

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The Terraform guide still uses region = "us-south" in its examples for Dallas, but the current Linode API returns Dallas as us-central.

Guide:
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/how-to-build-your-infrastructure-using-terraform-and-linode/

Observed behavior:

  • Terraform config uses us-south
  • terraform apply succeeds
  • terraform state show later reports region = "us-central"
  • terraform plan then shows a diff from us-central -> us-south
  • attempting to apply may fail with:
    Error: failed to migrate instance ... [400] [region] Cannot migrate linode to the same region

This suggests us-south is still accepted as a legacy alias, but us-central is now the canonical Dallas region ID returned by the API.

Request:
Please update the guide examples to use us-central for Dallas, TX to avoid perpetual Terraform drift and same-region migration errors.

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