Index and Lifecycle policy conflict

Something I noticed is that when you're creating a lifecyle policy with a delete step and you create the initial index using terraform, the lifecycle will delete the initial index. When you redeploy the terraform template the since-deleted index will be recreated, which is the expected behavior. The problem however, is that the index alias will be applied to the newly recreated index causing a conflict with the lifecycle policy on the next rollover.

Any advice on how to get around this?

No file or test is named. Start by reviewing the Terraform template and reproducing the interaction between the delete lifecycle step, the recreated initial index, and its alias in Elasticsearch. Done means the conflicting rollover behavior is prevented or clearly documented with a verified configuration.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.