[Bug]: Blob content update is not working

[vinish86]

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Affected Resource(s)

storage.azure.upbound.io/v1beta1 - Blob

Resource MRs required to reproduce the bug

I'm trying to update the blob's sourceContent, but it's not working.

MR

apiVersion: storage.azure.upbound.io/v1beta1
kind: Blob
metadata:
  name: test-blob
spec:
  forProvider:
    sourceContent: inline content for this blob edit1
    storageAccountName: testsa16252729
    storageContainerName: test-data
    type: Block
  providerConfigRef:
    name: default

Steps to Reproduce

First, I submit the MR with the initial source content. Once the blob is created, I update the MR file with new source content and resubmit it. Although sync and readiness show as true, the content in the blob isn't updated.

What happened?

This works in Terraform, where I notice that if there's any change to the blob content, the Terraform provider deletes the blob and re-creates it.

resource "azurerm_storage_blob" "create_blob" {
  name                   = local.blob_location
  storage_account_name   = local.storageAccountName
  storage_container_name = "application"
  type                   = "Block"
  source_content         = local.json_content
  lifecycle {
    create_before_destroy = true
  }
}

Relevant Error Output Snippet

No response

Crossplane Version

1.15.2

Provider Version

1.5.0

Kubernetes Version

1.28.2

Kubernetes Distribution

No response

Additional Info

No response

[mergenci]

@vinish86, The behavior you reported is the expected behavior. By design, Crossplane doesn't delete external resources implicitly.

For reference, sourceContent is a ForceNew attribute in Terraform — also noted in the resource's Terraform documentation.