No support for Automated Windows Password generation

[discentem]

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.11.7

Affected Resource(s)

Please list the resources as a list, for example:

• google_compute_instance

terraform-google-provider does not have support for https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/windows/automate-pw-generation as far as I can tell. Having the equivalent of hashicorp/terraform-provider-aws#2219 for this provider would be great for automated provisioning workflows.

Here is an full, working example of automate-pw-generation in golang: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-windows/pull/139/files. it would just need to be modified/integrated into this provider.

[morgante]

I'm not sure if this should be its own resource.

Instead, I think with the addition of #1578 you'd be able to do this all within your Terraform config.

The config would

• Use https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/tls/r/private_key.html to generate the private key
• Use https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/tls/d/public_key.html to generate the public key
• Set the instance metadata using google_compute_instance
• Use Serial Port data source #1578 to extract the password

[discentem]

Thanks for the comment @morgante. I was assuming it could be part of the compute_instance provider, but I definitely could be wrong.

Am I able to generate these bits just with already existing terraform functions? https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-windows/blob/master/examples/windows_auth_go_sample.go#L59-L71

[levid0s]

Any updates on this?

@morgante do you have a sample code on how to do this?

[morgante]

@KbLev Unfortunately I don't think it's currently possible because #1578 is still open.

[haf-afa]

@morgante What about the suggestion of @discentem - using the PKI infra to extract the password rather than "screen scraping" the password from the output of the serial port?

[haf]

Do we have some sample code to do this available now that #1578 is closed @morgante ?

[morgante]

I don't have the Terraform code, but you should be able to do the equivalent of https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/compute-image-windows/pull/139/files using the new data source.

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