google_compute_instance documentation reports the zone as being required

[ferrarimarco]

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Description

To date (3.51.0 version of the Google Cloud provider), the documentation reports that the zone is a required parameter. It actually is, but if you don't specify it, the default one you set for the provider gets picked for you.

Other resources that support this behavior have a different description for the zone or region arguments. Here's an example:

(Optional) The region in which the created registry should reside. If it is not provided, the provider region is used.

New or Affected Resource(s)

• google_compute_instance

[upodroid]

On a sidenote, some resources have zone/region marked as required when it shouldn't be. All resources should infer zone/region from provider and then fail if it is empty.

 REDACTED  MCW0CDP3YY  ~  go  …  github.com  hashicorp  terraform-provider-google-beta   master  19⬇  4✎  $    grep -B 4 "\"region\": {" -r google-beta/*.go  --exclude *_test.go | grep Required
google-beta/data_source_google_compute_vpn_gateway.go-                          Required: true,
google-beta/resource_compute_interconnect_attachment.go-traffic will traverse through. Required if type is DEDICATED, must not
google-beta/resource_compute_region_per_instance_config.go-                             Required:    true,
google-beta/resource_dataflow_flex_template_job.go-                             Required: true,
google-beta/resource_memcache_instance.go-                              Required:    true,
google-beta/resource_vpc_access_connector.go-                           Required:    true,
 REDACTED  MCW0CDP3YY  ~  go  …  github.com  hashicorp  terraform-provider-google-beta   master  19⬇  4✎  $    grep -B 4 "\"zone\": {" -r google-beta/*.go  --exclude *_test.go | grep Required
google-beta/data_source_google_compute_instance_serial_port.go-                         Required: true,
google-beta/resource_bigtable_instance.go-                                                      Required:    true,
google-beta/resource_bigtable_instance_migrate.go-                                                      Required: true,
google-beta/resource_compute_instance_group_named_port.go-                              Required:    true,
google-beta/resource_compute_network_endpoint.go-                               Required:    true,
google-beta/resource_compute_per_instance_config.go-                            Required:    true,
google-beta/resource_dataflow_job.go-                           Required:    true,
google-beta/resource_tpu_node.go-                               Required:    true,

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