When you are trying to add the contents of the Google Cloud credentials json file as a variable in Terraform Cloud you get the error that it cannot contain new lines. In this case you have to use the jq -c option as in:
cat credentials.json | jq -c
You are trying to run locally the terraform plan, while using the Terraform’s Cloud remote backend, before commiting your changes to your repo and running it through Terraform’s Cloud UI, and you are getting the previous error message:
Error: Invalid provider configuration
Remember to add the environment variables needed for your provider (AWS, Google, Exoscale etc) in the Variables section of your Terraform Cloud setup.
Even you have added them before, using a new Workspace means you will need to add them to each new workspace.
Problem
You want to use the pgp encryption when using Terraform to create an AWS IAM user, and you have the secret access token returned as an output but encoded.
Solution
Use the following to get the actual secret key decoded (after copying your encoded key to a file encrypted_key.txt:
$ cat encrypted_key.txt | base64 --decode | gpg -d
You are trying to add a new workspace in your organization in Terraform Cloud, using the same connected VCS (Gitlab) as the one you already have setup, but you get the above error when trying to add it in Firefox (Linux – Ubuntu – 79).
Use Chromi(um) to create the workspace as it works there. You can then use it in Firefox as normal.