Discussion on "How To Manage an Amazon Bedrock Agent Using Terraform"

Anthony Wat · 2024-05-01T04:30:36.287Z

Introduction In the previous blog post Building a Basic Forex Rate Assistant Using Agents for Amazon Bedrock, I demonstrated how to create a Bedrock agent in the AWS Management Console and outlined some ideas on improving the solution. Before further...

Awesome!!, but how do you handle aliases and versioning with preparing?

Am having a problem when creating an alias in TF because it needs to be "prepared" to do so. Should I use some depends on my alias using the null resource? (or something like that)

Thanks for your comment.

An alias must be (re-created) when there are changes that require preparing, so the agent resource and the null resource for preparing action group changes should be added to depends_on for the alias resource.

Furthermore, the alias must be re-created upon changes to the above. So you may need to use the replace_triggered_by meta-argument to force re-creation based on changes to the agent and the null resource's ID. I've not yet tried this myself but see if this works.

The aws_bedrockagent_agent now has a prepare_agent flag, so the null resource should be unnecessary now.

Thanks for your comment!

This new argument is only part of the solution, as changes to action groups still requires a PrepareAgent call. There is also a similar case with knowledge base attachments. Nonetheless it's a good idea to add the argument so there's one less dependency - I'll update the blog post and code example soon.

Hopefully I can get to adding similar arguments to the action group and KB resources, unless there are takers :)

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