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
Problem
You want to create a GKE cluster in Google using Terraform Cloud and the instructions provided https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/4.3.0/docs/guides/getting_started#using-terraform-cloud-as-the-backend
You are creating a service account in Google Service Accounts and you have set up the environment variable GOOGLE_CREDENTIALS (after removing the new lines from the json file with tr -d '\n' < original_google_file.json > no_newlines_google_file.json.
But when trying to create the GKE cluster you get the following error in Terraform
Required 'compute.networks.create' permission
Solution
The default permissions when creating the Service Account are not enough.
Add the Editor role to your service account, by going to IAM, Permissions for Project, as it does not seem possible to add this permission by editing the Service Account.
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.
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.
You would like to start using Terraform Cloud and when trying to initialize it with the new remote backend (app.terraform.io), you get the following error:
Error: Required token could not be found
Make sure you configured a credentials block for app.terraform.io in your CLI
Config File.Follow the instructions here https://www.terraform.io/docs/cloud/free/index.html and create a file ~/.terraformrc (in linux) with an API token.