I've tried deploying using "google_compute_instance" resource but it is not working. We need image name, family name to deploy the image, how can i get that?

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This issue was originally opened by @bskrishna60 as hashicorp/terraform#25519. It was migrated here as a result of the provider split. The original body of the issue is below.

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I'm trying to deploy CDAP VM (shorturl.at/qMN39) from GCP marketplace using terraform.

I've tried deploying using "google_compute_instance" resource but it is not working. We need image name, family name to deploy the image, how can i get that?

Link to GCP marketplace VM - https://console.cloud.google.com/marketplace/details/click-to-deploy-images/cdap?walkthrough_tutorial_id=java_gae_quickstart

[danawillow]

Hi @bskrishna60, GCP Marketplace doesn't have built-in Terraform support right now, so there isn't a super easy way to do this. One option would be to create it from the marketplace and then import the VM into your terraform state. You could either use Terraform's native import functionality and then reconstruct the config file based on the state, or a tool like terraformer to try to write both the config and the state.

Because GCP Marketplace allows downloading a deployment manager config, you have two additional options:

1. Read through the DM config and try to translate it into Terraform (the resources tend to align pretty closely on names/fields)
2. Use the deployment manager resource in order to use deployment manager through terraform. Note that if you do that, you won't be able to manage it with a google_compute_instance resource so you should be sure that's what you want.

Personally I think the import solution is probably the easiest one, but up to you how you want to proceed.

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