Description

The Compute Engine instance metadata server exposes legacy v0.1 and v1beta1 endpoints, which do not enforce metadata query headers.

This is a feature in the v1 APIs that makes it more difficult for a potential attacker to retrieve instance metadata.

Unless specifically required, we recommend you disable these legacy APIs.

When setting the metadata block, the default value for disable-legacy-endpoints is set to true, they should not be explicitly enabled.

Resolution: Disable legacy metadata endpoints.

Examples

Example of incorrect code:

resource "google_container_cluster" "bad_example" {
	metadata {
    disable-legacy-endpoints = false
  }
}

Example of correct code:

resource "google_container_cluster" "good_example" {
	metadata {
    disable-legacy-endpoints = true
  }
}