Failed to configure remote backend "gcs"

[tasdikrahman]

Terraform Version

$ terraform --version
Terraform v0.9.6

Affected Resource(s)

terraform backend gcs

Terraform Configuration Files

terraform {
  backend "gcs" {
    bucket = "my-terraform-state"
    path   = "testing/gcp/terraform.tfstate"
  }
}

Debug Output

$ terraform init
Initializing the backend...

Error configuring the backend "gcs": Failed to configure remote backend "gcs": google: could not find default credentials. See https://developers.google.com/accounts/docs/application-default-credentials for more information.

Please update the configuration in your Terraform files to fix this error
then run this command again.

Expected Behavior

Should have created the terraform.tfstate file which was not existing inside the already existing bucket named my-terraform-state

Actual Behavior

the state file was not created.

Steps to Reproduce

1. terraform init

Important Factoids

Using gcs as the remote backend

[tasdikrahman]

Doing a

$ gcloud auth application-default login

fixed the issue.

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