# hashicorp/terraform-provider-google

Terraform Provider for Google Cloud Platform

Repository: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/terraform-provider-google
Homepage: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs
Language: Go
License: MPL-2.0
License Family: copyleft
Topics: terraform, terraform-provider, google-cloud
Last push: 2026-08-26T21:53:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 95/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:39:23.370411+00:00)
- activity 99, release rhythm 87, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3376, "days_push": 7, "days_rel": 7, "gap_med": 6.0, "n_releases_24m": 117}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 2642, forks 1911 (observed 2026-08-28T04:07:06.554487+00:00)

## What it is
The official Terraform provider plugin for Google Cloud Platform, maintained by Google and HashiCorp. It lets Terraform provision and manage GCP resources declaratively through infrastructure-as-code configurations.

## Use cases
- provision gcp infrastructure with terraform
- manage google cloud resources as code
- automate cloud deployment of vms and networks on gcp
- define google cloud storage and bigquery resources in terraform
- version-control cloud infrastructure configuration

## When to choose
- you use Terraform and need to manage Google Cloud resources
- you want declarative, reproducible GCP infrastructure
- you need the generally available (GA) set of GCP provider features

## When to avoid
- you need beta or preview GCP features (use the google-beta provider instead)
- you manage clouds other than GCP (use the matching provider)
- you don't use Terraform for infrastructure management

## Facets
- artifact type: plugin
- maturity: active
- function: infrastructure-as-code, deployment, configuration-management, cloud
- domain: infrastructure-as-code, cloud-computing, developer-tools
- platform: cloud, cli, go, cross-platform
- tags: terraform-provider, google-cloud-platform, gcp, iac, terraform-plugin, devops

## Member repositories
- hashicorp/terraform-provider-google (main) score 95

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.554487+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T02:19:03.294110+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/hashicorp/terraform-provider-google (fetched 2026-08-28T04:07:06.554487+00:00, sha 8e2c9dd3f057)
  - homepage: https://registry.terraform.io/providers/hashicorp/google/latest/docs (fetched 2026-08-29T10:01:52.269162+00:00, sha 9edc94571ef3)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.