A very simple Terraform example with GCP

Install Terrafrom and gcloud.

Step 1 

A very simple Terraform example with GCP

Step 2

After making sure you have Terraform installed, create a simple file bigquery.tf then put these inside:

provider "google" {
 project = "shiritech-488519"
 region  = "europe-north1"
}
resource "google_bigquery_dataset" "dataset" {
  dataset_id  = "test_dataset2"
  friendly_name = "Example Test  Dataset"
  description = "Dataset created with Terraform"
}

*Remember that you can have several tf files in the same directory and Terraform will combine the together as a single file.

Step 3

For Terraform to connect to GCP we need to login with gcloud first using:

gcloud auth application-default login

Select the correct user who has the permissions to the project. 

 Step 4 

 Now we need to run the following commands:

terraform init #Connect to the backend
terraform validate #Make sure config is healthy
terraform plan #See the changes in advance
terraform apply #Apply the changes