Creating GKE cluster and Ingress app with one apply

[javierruizjimenez]

Hi @paulwwstorm

Welcome to Terraform forums, it is a great technology for infrastructure.

Take a look at the following question about executing commands after infrastructure creation:

Terraform anyway to simplify environment creation

Hi @rmattier, In the ideal case, Terraform should not need direct access to the machines it’s deploying because provisioners are a last resort. Indeed, that section alludes to this very problem as one of the justifications for seeking other approaches where possible: Secondly, successful use of provisioners requires coordinating many more details than Terraform usage usually requires: direct network access to your servers, issuing Terraform credentials to log in, making sure that all of the n…

There is a Terraform provider for Kubernetes that you could use, but I would suggest that you write a different Terraform definition for that, as your GKE should have a longer and different life than the ingress app:

https://www.terraform.io/docs/providers/kubernetes/index.html

So actually not a single Terraform apply.