Quan Tong
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Terraform failed to acquire state lock: 403: Access denied., forbidden

2022-11-17

Problem

We stored Terraform state in gcs. For some reasons, we got this error randomly when running on BitBucket pipelines:

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 2│ Error: Error acquiring the state lock
 3│ 
 4│ Error message: 2 errors occurred:
 5│ 	* writing
 6│ "gs://bucket/path/to/default.tflock"
 7│ failed: googleapi: Error 403: Access denied., forbidden
 8│ 	* storage: object doesn't exist
 9│ 
10│ 
11│ 
12│ Terraform acquires a state lock to protect the state from being written
13│ by multiple users at the same time. Please resolve the issue above and try
14│ again. For most commands, you can disable locking with the "-lock=false"
15│ flag, but this is not recommended.
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