Jetbrains IDE Google Cloud Terraform Beta Provider Confusion Example

The JetBrains Terraform/OpenTofu Plugin gets confused when dealing with Terraform resources using the Terraform Google Cloud Beta provider (google-beta).

Background

Google Publishes two versions of the Google Cloud Terraform Provider - the standard google provider and the google-beta provider. The google-beta provider includes beta and experimental features that are not yet part of the stable google provider.

The google-beta provider includes both resources and resource fields which are not included in the google (GA) provider. This results in a difference in the resulting Provider Metadata.

Both providers use resource names prefixed with google_, and the beta provider can only be used by explicitly setting the provider = google-beta field.

Beta-Provider-Only Resource

The following example using google_project_service_identity currently produces two IDE inspection warnings:

• For the provider "hashicorp/google", resource "google_project_service_identity" is not defined
• Unknown property service

resource "google_project_service_identity" "default" {
  provider = google-beta // Explicitly specified beta provider is ignored by IDE
  service  = "compute.googleapis.com"
}

Curiously, how can the IDE know what properties are valid on a resource if doesn't recognize the resource?

IDE incorrectly associates google-beta resources with a "google-beta_" resource name prefix

This should result in an IDE warning Unknown resource: "google-beta_project_service_identity". Produces no warnings.

resource "google-beta_project_service_identity" "default" {
  service  = "compute.googleapis.com"
}

Example Screenshot

Beta-Only Data Sources & Resources

As of 2025-02-20, the following data sources and resources are available only in the google-beta provider.

Extracted from GoogleCloudPlatform/magic-modules/mmv1/third_party/terraform/provider/provider_mmv1_resources.go. tmpl

Beta-Only Data Sources

• google_cloud_asset_resources_search_all
• google_firebase_android_app
• google_firebase_apple_app
• google_firebase_hosting_channel
• google_firebase_web_app
• google_kms_autokey_config
• google_kms_key_handle
• google_kms_key_handles
• google_kms_secret_asymmetric
• google_parameter_manager_parameter_version_render
• google_parameter_manager_parameter_version
• google_parameter_manager_parameter
• google_parameter_manager_parameters
• google_parameter_manager_regional_parameter_version_render
• google_parameter_manager_regional_parameter_version
• google_parameter_manager_regional_parameter
• google_parameter_manager_regional_parameters
• google_runtimeconfig_config
• google_runtimeconfig_variable
• google_tpu_v2_accelerator_types
• google_tpu_v2_runtime_versions

Beta-Only Resources

• google_compute_instance_from_machine_image
• google_dataflow_flex_template_job
• google_project_service_identity
• google_runtimeconfig_config
• google_runtimeconfig_variable