Terraform-provider-google: import google_compute_router_nat fails

[ricosega]

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Terraform Version

Terraform v0.11.13

• provider.google v2.5.1

Affected Resource(s)

google_compute_router_nat

Terraform Configuration Files

resource "google_compute_router_nat" "nat-gateway" {
  project   =   "project_name"
}

Debug Output

https://gist.github.com/ricosega/0b038513447d32312f563b152b52a0eb

Expected Behavior

Import the state in the state file

Actual Behavior

Prompting error and not saving it to state file.

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform import google_compute_router_nat.nat-gateway us-west2/core-router/nat-gateway

[rileykarson]

Hey @ricosega! terraform import doesn't actually pull information from the config; instead, the project is inferred from the default value defined in your provider block / by an env var.

[ricosega]

I am not sure that is the problem, because I have been able to import any other resources but not this one.
And the error is the following where you can see that first it correctly imports the resource but then it fails when trying to refresh state:

google_compute_router_nat.nat-gateway: Importing from ID "us-west2/core-router/nat-gateway"...
google_compute_router_nat.nat-gateway: Import complete!
  Imported google_compute_router_nat (ID: us-west2/core-router/nat-gateway)
google_compute_router_nat.nat-gateway: Refreshing state... (ID: us-west2/core-router/nat-gateway)

Error: google_compute_router_nat.nat-gateway (import id: us-west2/core-router/nat-gateway): 1 error(s) occurred:

* import google_compute_router_nat.nat-gateway result: us-west2/core-router/nat-gateway: google_compute_router_nat.nat-gateway: project: required field is not set

[JCMais]

I just had this problem. This particular import does not allow to pass the project via the id, like {project}/{region}/{router}/{nat}, while others (all the ones I imported so far) support that.

The fix like mentioned above by @rileykarson is to force some project, in my case I did:

GOOGLE_PROJECT=my-project-id terraform import google_compute_router_nat.nat-name region/router-name/nat-name

[rileykarson]

Project can be specified explicitly on the resource at import-time beginning with 2.8.0.

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