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