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CloudFlare: Partial zone signup not allowed (1104) terraform

If you are enterprise customer, you can make use of CloudFlare Partial domain setup maintain your own DNS servers. Though name suggests partial DNS it is creaion of a proxy host and you assign CNAME pointint to it.

When you try to create partial Zone using terraform provider you may end up with below error message. 

cloudflare_zone.testhellorayozone: Creating...
 Error: error creating zone "vettom.online": Partial zone signup not allowed (1104)

   with cloudflare_zone.testhellorayozone,
   on main.tf line 19, in resource "cloudflare_zone" "testhellorayozone":
   19: resource "cloudflare_zone" "testhellorayozone" {

Solution

This is an error from CloudFlare provider. It seems they have to enable/allow terraform partial Zone creation using Terraform

  • Raise support ticket with Cloudflare to allow terrafor Partial Zone creation
  • Ensure you are using Global API Key for authentication
  • Must have Enterprise plan, not available for other plans
resource "cloudflare_zone" "zone" {
  account_id = var.accountid
  zone       = var.domain
  type       = "partial"
  plan       = "enterprise"
}