google_compute_instance should allow to specify instance state

[roman8422]

Hi,

There are several long lasting issues open with the same functionality request for aws_instance.
It would be very useful to have such option for google_compute_instance as well.

Terraform Version

Terraform v0.11.7

Affected Resource(s)

• google_compute_instance

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "google_compute_instance" "default" {
  name         = "test"
  machine_type = "f1-micro"
  zone         = "us-central1-a"
# state        = "running"
# state        = "stopped"

  boot_disk {
    initialize_params {
      image = "debian-cloud/debian-8"
    }
  }

  network_interface {
    network = "default"
  }
}

References

Are there any other GitHub issues (open or closed) or Pull Requests that should be linked here? For example:

• Stop instances terraform-provider-aws#22
• aws_instance should allow to specify the instance state terraform-provider-aws#190

[paddycarver]

Hi, thanks for the feature request! As you noted, this is a common feature request for other providers, and I think the current state of things is best summed up by Mitchell's response to the feature request for AWS: managing the state of an instance is more complicated than managing the presence of an instance (how do I go from "terminated" to "stopped"? What do we even do with "suspended"?) I think upstream Terraform was thinking on some of this a bit ago, but I don't know that a decision was ever reached.

[hounded]

This is so needed! I tried deploying the new gitlab chart to a cluster running 2 n1-standard-1 ($50 a month) and the resource hungry beast wouldn't run, it did run on 2 n1-standard-4 but I can't foot a $300 a month bill for my devops when I'm a solo developer, would be so handy to be able to shutdown node pools and then bring them up when needed.

[agadelshin]

@paddycarver I'm not really sure why do we have "STOPPED" status in compute client. https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/instances/instance-life-cycle describes TERMINATED state as state for stopped instance. I've created PR using life cycle info from this doc.

[upodroid]

@rileykarson We can close this. It was fixed in #4797

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