Specify OCI SDK profile for provider information

[nelsonse]

Terraform Version

All

Description:

Instead of having to provide discrete authentication information, it would be nice to use the profile information contained within the config file needed to execute the OCI SDK. If profile was not specified, the DEFAULT profile would be used.

[sanketdjain]

+1, We already use the Python SDK in our automation. It would help if we can reuse the same config file and profile information for OCI Terraform as well.

[codycushing]

the new oci go sdk we are porting to supports this, so we'll get provider integration in the backlog

[codycushing]

Using this config source should now be possible with the new sdk integration, however, I do not believe it supports (at the sdk) switching between profiles.

[codycushing]

This is supported but currently limited to reading from the default section of the ~/.oci/config file.

[BrunoHenriques]

The OCI CLI works fine for me but I can't make the following Terraform work.

provider "oci" {
tenancy_ocid = "${var.tenancy_ocid}"
user_ocid = "${var.user_ocid}"
fingerprint = "${var.fingerprint}"
private_key_path = "${var.private_key_path}"
region = "${var.region}"
}

resource "oci_objectstorage_bucket" "terraform_bucket" {
#Required
compartment_id = "OMHCompartment"
name = "terraform_bucket"
namespace = "paasdevmobile"
}

I get:

provider.oci.region
(Required) The region for API connections (e.g. us-ashburn-1).

Enter a value:

I could not find anything about using authentication based on ~/.oci/config at
https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/oci/index.html.

[kilokahn]

@BrunoHenriques - can you please open up a new issue for this?