Update provider_reference.html.markdown with TFE help

[ausfestivus]

Updated to describe use of credentials in Terraform Cloud|Enterprise Workspaces.

[mhamrah]

+1

[ausfestivus]

Hey @danawillow anything needed from me on this?

[danawillow]

Sorry about that, I picked up the review right before I went on vacation for two weeks 😐 . Looks like this got out-of-date in the meantime, mind rebasing onto master?

[ChrisTomAlx]

This information is important. Have been diving around many rabbit holes before I reached here. I hope this gets in soon for anyone else searching for this info

EDIT: Also it still isn't very clear. To add empty string replace \n with ''(two single quotes) and replace any " (double quote) with \"

eg :-

credentials = "{\"type\": \"service_account\", ,\"private_key\": \"-----BEGIN PRIVATE KEY-----''xxxxx''-----END PRIVATE KEY-----\"}"

Hope this helps someone
Thanks you :))

[ausfestivus]

Hey @danawillow Did I get that rebase right? I think I got it right. Still earning my Git stripes. :-p
Apols for the delay, been up to my eyeballs in some other repos lately.

[danawillow]

Not sure how this extra file ended up in here, but it can probably be removed from the commit

[danawillow]

Do you know if this is true all the time, or just when using TFC or TFE?

[mhamrah]

All the time- you're setting an environment variable which can't have linebreaks.

[ChrisTomAlx]

@ausfestivus Could you put an example usage of credentials with file contents in the documentation as well. Since I still could not get it to work as expected

[rileykarson]

Closing PR as stale (fyi @SarahFrench in case this is something we want to reraise)

[SarahFrench]

It looks like the docs contain info about how to handle creds in TFC/TFE and there are instructions about needing to remove newlines:

terraform-provider-google/website/docs/guides/provider_reference.html.markdown

Line 97 in cec3f91

2. Remove the newline characters from your JSON key file and then paste the credentials into the environment variable value field. You can use the tr command to strip newline characters. `cat key.json | tr -s '\n' ' '`

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