When deleting Metal Gateway 404 is seen as error instead of success

[displague]

When deleting Metal Gateway 404 is seen as error instead of success

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Terraform Version

Affected Resource(s)

• equinix_metal_gateway

Terraform Configuration Files

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Debug Output

Panic Output

Expected Behavior

Actual Behavior

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform apply

References

• #0000

[t0mk]

@displague There is some code that guards the HTTP response codes when deleting metakk gateway:
https://github.com/equinix/terraform-provider-equinix/blob/main/equinix/resource_metal_gateway.go#L162

What's the scenario when the tf delete fails?