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This is exciting, but I really hope that Terraform will add support for it in reasonable time. These days I'd prefer to not manually manage cloud resources if I don't have to.

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Hey jchw, Dana from GCP here. No promises on the timeline, but I can tell you that adding a request in the issue tracker (https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-go...) will at least put it on our radar so we start working on it sooner.

done: https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-go...

Hashicorp doesn't seem to like Google Cloud too much. I've been moving to Google Cloud Builder and it's Jinja and Python templates, which I happen to be a little familiar with...

I’m not sure why you’d say that Hashicorp doesn’t like Google Cloud. I can think of recent partnerships between Hashicorp and Google on Vault and Terraform that are both substantial integrations. Google Cloud and Hashicorp both have people that work on the GCP Terraform Provider, and they do an excellent job keeping it up to date. By all external measures this looks like a great relationship.

Google Cloud Deployment Manager, you mean? Yeah, that is linked tightly with Google's API system which means it has the fastest support for new things.

Google does (last I checked) put some paid time into systems like Terraform so that they support GCP well, but there's always going to be more of a lag, especially before GA.

I don't know Terraform well enough to know how big the lag is for new AWS features, but some lag probably exists even there despite AWS's dominant market share.

There's a bunch of undocumented GCB features by the way. Pop into their Slack and they'll often give you tips that haven't made their way into the docs yet. We've been mostly happy with it, but still use Jenkins as the kickoff point.

Plz do a write-up.

EOM

https://github.com/terraform-providers/terraform-provider-go...

"This provider plugin is maintained by:

    The Google Cloud Graphite Team at Google
    The Terraform team at HashiCorp

So Google can also help in this regard.

AFAIK the policy is will be added once it's GA?

If postgres on cloud sql is any indication, then it will only be another year and a half! :) They seem to take the Beta/GA process very seriously and don't rush things to GA.

Sooner would be helpful to people who want to test the service while it's in beta in anticipation of relying on it in production after GA.

Do you know if they document their Terraform timeline policy for GCP anywhere?

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