terraform & GCP

July 3rd, 2022

How to login:

 

don't use a downloaded credential file

https://jryancanty.medium.com/stop-downloading-google-cloud-service-account-keys-1811d44a97d9

 

instead

export GOOGLE_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN="$(gcloud auth print-access-token)"

 

or

 

SERVICE_ACCOUNT="your-service-account-email"

export GOOGLE_OAUTH_ACCESS_TOKEN="$(gcloud --impersonate-service-account="${SERVICE_ACCOUNT}" auth print-access-token)"

 

followed by your terraform commands

 

or have a look at my automated setup

https://github.com/TjenWellens/docker-alias

 

Also related to terraform: my terraform gcp setup template:

https://github.com/TjenWellens/template-tf-gcp-init