FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

Does the provider have support for ____?

Resources in the provider tend to match up with the resource name in the REST API for a product. The Provider Documentation lists all resources available in the most recent version of the provider.

Note that not all GCP functionality makes sense to be added to Terraform. For something to make sense, it must:

• have an associated REST API: To add it to the google or google-beta provider, that API must be publicly-accessible.
• be able to be represented declaratively and idempotently: Long-lived infrastructure is a good fit for Terraform. Short-lived jobs are not, as it's not clear what the intent is if applied multiple times.

I've made a change to the providers. When will the feature be released?

Google provider releases are made every week on Monday close to EOD in Pacific time, unless there are extenuating circumstances.

You can monitor the release pages for the appropriate provider (google (GA) or google-beta) to determine if a weekly release cut is made, or a specific feature is included. We do not provide tracking bugs as part of our release process, nor tracking for individual features' release.

We cut our release branch on Tuesday nights, and release the following Monday. This means that any code change that is merged on a Monday or Tuesday will be released the following Monday, and any change that is merged W-F will be released the Monday after.

I've added the beta provider in my config. Why does it still use the GA provider?

If you want to use beta provider, provider = google-beta should be set explicitly on every resource, even if you’ve only defined a google-beta provider block or you've already added the beta provider in the required_providers block.

Please refer to Google Provider Versions for more detailed information.

What is the difference between id and project_id in the google_project resource?
Which one should I use?

id is an identifier for the project with the format projects/{{project}}, while project_id is the real project ID with the format {{project}}.

project_id should be used as the project argument in your configuration, as all resources should be able to accept the {{project}} format for the project field.