Managing API keys

[shouichi]

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Description

It seems like we can not manage API keys. We need to manage them to use Google Maps' geocoding API that requires an API key.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• API Keys

Potential Terraform Configuration

# Propose what you think the configuration to take advantage of this feature should look like.
# We may not use it verbatim, but it's helpful in understanding your intent.

resource "google_api_key" "key" {
	api_restrictions = [
		"geocoding",
		...,
	]
}

References

[emilymye]

In general, API keys with Google Cloud or other Google APIs are not creatable via Terraform because they only can be created via the Cloud Console UI/web-app, not programatically using some API, and they tend to require OAuth2 authentication to create (i.e. your Google login), which we don't support in Terraform.

I'm also not sure that this is a good idea anyways, since API keys for Google APIs tend to be long-lasting, identifying credentials specific to a user or group of users (human operators), and thus should be bootstrapped and managed like other root secrets rather than service account keys or other secrets, which were meant to be used by machines or programatically created/deleted (even if they are also long-lasting and identifying in practice :( )

[ghost]

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