Terraform - resource repeated multiple times

Question

I have a terraform plan which consists of multiple aws_sqs_queue resources which more of less share the same config. Before I remove any repeating configs and use variables I wanted to run terraform plan to see if it works. However I keep running into -

module root: 1 error(s) occurred:

* data.template_file.ep_match_result_queues: resource repeated multiple times

Ive tried googling but there is not much information available. Any help will be much appreciated. My plan looks like this: (ignore extra braces, typos as this is just a skeleton to give you a general idea how the plan is sturctured):

data "template_file" "ep_match_result_queues" {
  template = "${var.namespace}-sm-ep"
}

resource "aws_sns_topic" "sns_topic_name" {
  name            = "ep_sm_match_result_topic${var.environment}"
  display_name    = ""
  policy          = <<POLICY
{
 #policy
}


resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue1" {
 #config
}

resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue2" {
 #config

    redrive_policy             = <<POLICY
{
 #policy
}
POLICY
}

resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue3" {
#config
}

resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue4" {
 #config

    redrive_policy             = <<POLICY
{
 #policy
}
POLICY
}

resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue5" {
 #config
}

resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue6" {
  #config

    redrive_policy             = <<POLICY
{
 #policy
}
POLICY
}

resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue7" {
 #config
}

resource "aws_sqs_queue" "queue8" {
  #config

    redrive_policy             = <<POLICY
{
 #policy
}
POLICY
}

resource "aws_sqs_queue_policy" "queue_policy" {
  queue_url = [ ... ]
  policy    = "${data.aws_iam_policy_document.match_result_queues_policy.json}"
}

data "aws_iam_policy_document" "match_result_queues_policy" {
 #policy
}

Answer 1

Terraform scans the configuration directory for all files whose name end in .tf, and loads them all as configuration.

A common cause of this problem is if you accidentally duplicate one of the .tf files under a new name, and do not update its contents. In that case, Terraform will see both files define the same resource and produce the error shown here.