Investigating problems in terraform-provider-ovirt

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The article analyzes problems in the terraform-provider-ovirt provider and focuses on how its CRUD behavior maps to the oVirt REST API. It walks through API quirks around create, read, update, delete, and follow operations, and highlights where Terraform state handling becomes difficult. The discussion points out limitations in action handling, UUID and ID usage, and the mismatch between Terraform assumptions and the oVirt API model. It also references zVirt and compares behavior across virtualization workflows such as VM creation and disk attachment management.

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