I’m facing an issue while configuring a Terraform backend on Google Cloud Platform. Specifically, my setup fails to load the state file because of permission restrictions, even though the service account has been granted the full storage admin role. The error message indicates that permission to access the storage object using storage.objects.get is missing, resulting in an ‘AccessDenied’ response. Any advice on how to resolve these permission issues?
hey, i’ve seen similar issues. sometimes it’s not just the storage admin role but how the service account is mapped. did u verify that the account config matches in both backend and iam? curious if anyone else tripped up on this too.
i had a similar hiccup - turned out the bucket and project ids were misaligned. double-check your config and any inherited policy issues that might block the service account access. a minor typo in your settings can cause this denied error.
In my experience, the solution was to look beyond the assigned roles on the service account and focus on the specific bucket permissions. Although the service account had the Storage Admin role, the bucket policy itself might have imposed restrictions that prevented access to certain operations like storage.objects.get. I resolved this by ensuring that the bucket’s ACLs and IAM policies were consistent and did not override the granted permissions. In some cases, creating a custom role that explicitly includes the necessary permissions can also be an effective approach.
hey, maybe the issue lies in hidden bucket acl settings or org policies overridein your storage perms? i ran into something similar and rechecked those configs. any chance you noticed an extra policy interfering?