AWS autoscaling group names should be able to be autogenerated

[jszwedko]

Currently name is required and must be unique within the region/account.

[ericfode]

👍

[radeksimko]

I'm 👍 on this, but I would wait with implementation until #2571 gets reviewed & merged, so we have the prefixed-unique-ID functionality in core and we can use it here too.

[jszwedko]

@radeksimko 👍 👍

[stack72]

@radeksimko #2571 is now merged so I think this one can be closed now - is this correct? //cc @phinze

[radeksimko]

@stack72 The function for generating unique names is merged, but ASGs still have name Required: true:
https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform/blob/master/builtin/providers/aws/resource_aws_autoscaling_group.go#L28

[stack72]

ok, I opened the PR that allows this to work now :) Thanks for the hints @radeksimko

[catsby]

I merged #3710 , completing this. Thanks all!

[ghost]

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