docs/resource/aws_storagegateway_gateway: Docs clarification for impo…

…rting (#14878) * docs clarification for importing storage gateway gateway * lint * Update website/docs/r/storagegateway_gateway.html.markdown Co-authored-by: Brian Flad <[email protected]> Co-authored-by: Brian Flad <[email protected]>
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@@ -113,3 +113,18 @@ In addition to all arguments above, the following attributes are exported:
 ```
 $ terraform import aws_storagegateway_gateway.example arn:aws:storagegateway:us-east-1:123456789012:gateway/sgw-12345678
 ```
+
+Certain resource arguments, like `gateway_ip_address` do not have a Storage Gateway API method for reading the information after creation, either omit the argument from the Terraform configuration or use [`ignore_changes`](/docs/configuration/resources.html#ignore_changes) to hide the difference, e.g.
+
+
+```hcl
+resource "aws_storagegateway_gateway" "example" {
+  # ... other configuration ...
+
+  gateway_ip_address = aws_instance.sgw.private_ip
+  # There is no Storage Gateway API for reading gateway_ip_address
+  lifecycle {
+    ignore_changes = ["gateway_ip_address"]
+  }
+}
+```