GCP + Terraform Useless or am I missing something?

Playgrounds
#1

If I am using the GCP + Terraform playground I expect both to be working at the same time without hassles especially with an aggressively ticking clock.

Maybe I am misunderstanding how to use this playground.

Example: I attempt to use Terraform to create a Rocky Linux instance. I want proof that it actually created the compute instance.

I do a Gcloud auth login and paste the URL into the browser. Then it prompts me for auth credentials.

Would those not be provided during the use of this lab or am I expected to use my own GCP account?

Thanks.

#2

I did some testing with setting the log settings (TF_LOG_PATH="./terraform_debug.log" TF_LOG=DEBUG terraform apply) and found that even the included sample tf file times out after about 15 minutes. I would agree that the playground is horked.

I’ve created an issue for our playground engineers; I’ll get back with when they tell me what they think is up with it.