Can I use GCS as a backend when running Terraform steps with Octopus?

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Can I use GCS as a backend when running Terraform steps with Octopus?

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Yes!

Configure a Google cloud account with the permissions needed to read and write to GCS per your requirements.

Add the account as a variable to your project. In this example, my variable is named GCP.Backend.Account.

Add a backend definition to your TF template.

terraform {
  backend "gcs" {
    credentials = "#{GCP.Backend.Account.JsonKey | FromBase64 | JsonEscape}"
    bucket  = "your-bucket-here"
    prefix  = "your-prefix-here"
  }
}

With that configuration, the TF state will be stored to the GCS bucket that you provided.