Use Terraform to Provision Infrastructure on Linode Proposed Changes
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Description
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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