New Resource: aws_lakeformation_resource_link

[WafflesMcDuff]

Need the ability to create resource links through terraform for aws_lakeformation

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Description

New or Affected Resource(s)

• aws_lakeformation_resource_link

References

• About Lake Formation Resource Links

[anGie44]

Hi @WafflesMcDuff, thank you for creating this issue! Making a first pass at the AWS LakeFormation User Guide/available SDK methods, I don't currently see support for this operation but we'll keep an eye out for this functionality 👍

[chrisbulgaria]

Hi, I think this is implemented on the underlying Glue level - here : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/webapi/API_CreateTable.html (TargetDatabase) . But its indeed not available on the terraform glue resources, there is an issue for that already
#15296

And btw - there are several important issues and pull requests outstanding for LakeFormation - so all LF and terraform fans please vote them up so that we have a chance to get them implemented !

[WafflesMcDuff]

Related to #15296

[amirbrown]

Hi, I think this is implemented on the underlying Glue level - here : https://docs.aws.amazon.com/glue/latest/webapi/API_CreateTable.html (TargetDatabase) . But its indeed not available on the terraform glue resources, there is an issue for that already
#15296

Yeah, lf is confusing because the console ui fronts various parts of glue functionality without being clear what it is doing.
If you look at the lf docs about the resource links you can see that it is all glue apis and permissions.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lake-formation/latest/dg/resource-links-glue-apis.html

There is no reference to a resource link in the lf api docs or lf cloudformation docs.

[jogoldberg]

@bflad - Can you help get some priority around this?

[rito-sixt]

Hi. Any updates on this?

[Mralbert93]

You should be able to create resource links in Lake Formation by using the aws_glue_catalog_database resource and specifying a target_database block.